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§>tnait Sraolultnu No. 14r. 

(Reported In' Mr. Smith of Arizona.) 

In the Senate <>p the United States, 

October 6, 1917. 

Resolved, That the manuscript entitled "The official report 
of the second inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as President of 
the United States and Thomas R. Marshall as Vice President of 
the United States on March fifth, nineteen hundred and seven- 
teen," be printed as a Senate document, with accompanying 
illustrations. 

Attest. 

James M. Baker, Secretary. 



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Letter from the President 8 

Letter from Vice President lo 

Letter from Hon. Vance McCormick 12 

Report from the Inaugural Chairman 23 

The Inaugural Committee 17 

Report of the Military' Organization 85 

Report of Finance Committee 174 

Reception Committee 125 

Legislation Committee 163 

Press Committee 143 

Printing Committee 151 

Fireworks Committee i ig 

Transportation Committee 115 

Public Comfort Committee 161 

Public Order Committee 171 

Civic Organization Committee '..... 113 

Reviewing Stands Committee 135 

Street Decoration Committee 139 

Historic Sites Committee 117 

Illumination Committee 155 

Cotirt of Honor 147 

Railroad Terminal Committee. .. '.' 141 

Hotel Accommodations 142 

Medals and Badges Committee 127 

Souvenir Booklet Committee 151 ' 

Local Transportation Committee 137 

Treasurer 181 

Auditing Committee 182 

Rules Governing Committees 71 

Final Meeting 197 

Letter from Rotarj^ Club 195 

Letter from National Democratic Committee 193 



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Coniinletl and edited by . 

Robert Newton Harper 

Chairman of the general committee for the second 
inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as President of 
the United States of America and Thomas Riley 
Marshall as Vice President. 

March 5, 1917. 



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United States Capitol Building 7 

President Woodrow Wilson 9 

Vice President Thomas R. Marshall 11 

Hon. Vance McCormick 13 

Officers of the Inaugural Committee 14 

Inaugural Committee, 1917 16 

Capitol Building at Night 21 

Hon. Champ Clark • 27 

Municipal Building, District of Columbia 29 

United States Senate Chamber 36 

Joint Congressional Committee 40 

Chief Justice White 45 

President Wilson Taking the Oath 47 

Former Inaugural Chairmen 56-57 

Court of Honor at Night 67 

South Front of White House 79 

General Hugh L. Scott and Staff 83 

Citizens Committee and Aides iii 

Union Station 123 

President's Reviewing Stand 133 

Court of Honor in Daytime 145 

Illumination at Night 153 

United States Pension Office , . . . 157 

Interior of Union Station 159 

Mounted Police of the District of Columbia 169 



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THE WHITE HOUSE 

W/A S H INOTON 



22 Iferch, 1917 

% dear Colonel Harper: 

I am siire you will realize that it 
Is only illness that has prevented n^ writing 
sooner to express to you and to your many able 
assistants iqy very great appreciation of the 
success of the arrangements and of the programne 
of Inaiog-uration Day. I think everybody felt 
that the occasion was managed with unusual 
capacity, and I heard on all aides coiigrat'jla- 
tions as to its success. 

With mxich appreciation, 

Cordially and sincerely yours, 




Col. E. N. Harper, 

1515 Sixteenth Street, N-W, 

Washington, D. C. 



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PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON 



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THE VICE-PRESIDENT'S CHAMBER. 
WASH INGTON 

April 5". 1917. 



Gentlemen.- 

I am in no condition to make comparisons 
of inaugural ceremoniee and parades. Four years 
ago, Washington was new to me and I was not in a 
situation to give thoughtful attention to the 
proceedings. This year, it was not new and I 
paid strict attention not only to the arrangements 
which had been made but to the way in which the 
details were carried out. 

May I congratulate you upon what I believe 
to be very perfect arrangements for an inaugura- 
tion of the President of the United States and 
say that the way in which these arrangements 
were carried out to the minutest detail was a 
marvel to me. The procession piresented an ideal 
view of American life and the orderly and speedy 
way in which it passed the reviewing stand was a 
matter of universal comment. 

I have received with great gratification 
the medal commemorative of the occasion, which the 
committee has had struck and presented to me. 
/jnong the few cherished objects of my life will 
be this medal visualizing as it will to me in 
the years to come, the courtesy and good will 
which the citizens of Washington have so large- 
ly bestowed upon me during my residence here.. 
I bespeak for you and for your committee,, 
long life and aboundant prosperity. 

Cordially yours. 



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Col. R.N. Harper and 
Members of the 
Inaugural Committee. 



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VICE PRESIDENT THOMAS R. MARSHALL 



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VANCE CMcCORMICK 

CHAIRMAN DEMOCRATIC NAT:0NAI. COMMiTTEET 

FORTY SECOND STREET B U I UOI NO. NE w YORK ' 



Harrisburg, Penn'a, 
December 11th, 1916 



Col Robert N Harper, 

c/a District of Columbia National Bank, 

Washington, D.C. 
% dear Sir:- 

As Chairman of the Democratic National Committee I 
have the honor to appoint you Chairman of the Inaugural Conmittee 
for the Inauguration of President Wilson on March 5th, 1917. 

I sincerely hope you will accept this appointment, aa 
I have every confidence that you will perform the duties of this 
important position with entire satiafaction to everyone concerned. 

With kind regards, I am 

Very truly yours , 

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Chai 
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HON. VANCE MCCORMICK 
CHAIRMAN DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE 



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OFFICERS OF THE INAUGURAL COMMITTEE 



1 ROBERT N. HARPER 

2 CHAS. W. DARR 

3 LOUIS BROWNLOW 



4 OLIVER P. NEWMAN 

5 ALVIN G. BELT 

6 WILLIAM H. SAUNDERS 



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WtCuns nf tlip 3luauijural (EDUtmittrr, 191 T 

INAUGURAL CHAIRMAN 

ROBERT NEWTON HARPER 

VICE CHAIRMEN 

Hon. OI^IVER p. NEWMAN 
Hon. LOUIS BROWNLOW 
Hon. CHAS. W. DARK 

SECRETARY 

ALVIN G. BELT 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY 

R. E. BROOKS 

TREASURER 

WILLIAM H. SAUNDERS 

CLERK 

WILLIAM J. HARPER 

STENOGRAPHER 

Mrs. R. LOUISE HERNDON 



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3Juaitg«ral (Hommtltrp 



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Ailcs, Milton E. 

Anderson, Larz. 

Andrews, Ross P. 

Arth, Chas. W. 

Blair, Woodbury. 

Brandenburg, Iv. C. 

Brown, Chapin. 

Brjlawski, A. 

Belt, Alvin G. 

Brownlow, Coniniissioner Louis. 

Blair, Henr>- P. 

Bliss, Maj. Gen. T. H. 

Bennett, Claude N. 

Berrjman, C. K. 

Bell, Chas. J. 

Brixjke, Richard N. 

Blair, Gist. 

Barnard, Ralph P. 

Baker, James M. 

Boggs, Mrs. James H. 

Butler, Alban B. 

Bradley, Edson. 

Bennett, Ira E. 

Bride, Cotter T. 

Bride, W. W. 

Brooks, Leu C. 

Clayton, W. McK. 

Cox, \V. \'. 

Carr, Dr. \V. P. 

Carter, W. G. 

Carry, Albert. 

Costello, Walter J. 

Corby, W. S. 

Chisholm, Daniel \'. 

Clapham, A. G. 

Cunningham, J. Harry. 

Colpoys, John B. 

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Calhoun, C. C. 
Costello, John P. 
Callahan, D. J. 
Cooper, Wade H. 
Cobb, Murray A. 
Cochran, John B. 
Corby. Charles I. 
Covington, Hon. J. H. 
Darr, Charles W. 
Douglas, Charles A. 
Drury, P. A. 
Davis, Henry Iv. 
Dent, W. G. 
Devol, Brig. Gen. C. A. 
Dove, J. Maur\'. 
Donlon, Rev. A. J., S.J. 
Dulany, H. Ro/ier. 
de Sibour, J. H. 
Darlington, J.J. 
Droop, Iv. H. 
David, Levi H. 
Essary, J. L'red. 
lul wards, Daniel .\. 
Eckhardt, Cornelius, 
luistis, George P. 
Emmons, George H, jr. 
Estes, L. W. 
Edson, John Joy. 
Eustis, William C. 
Easby-Smith, James S. 
Poster, Percy S. 
Eraser, Daniel. 
Elather, W. J. 
Ford, Cornelius. 
Fleming, George E. 
Fox, A. I". 
Gait, Alexander H. 



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Gasch, Hcnuun li. 
Given, Ralph. 
Grant, Thomas. 
Green, James M. 
Gude, William F. 
Gans, Isaac. 
Grosvcnor, Gilljert H. 
Graham, E. C. 
Gockeler, C. J. 
Gordon, William A. 
Gould, Hon. Ashley M. 
Grayson, Dr. Gary T. 
Galliher, W. T. 
Gompers, Samuel. 
Haskin, Frederick J. 
Harts, Col. W. W. 
Hammond, Dr. T. V. 
Hagner, Randall H. 
Hamilton, George H. 
Hensey, A. T. 
Hcge, Samuel B. 
Hibbs, William I!. 
Hitz, Hon. William. 
Holmes, Lewis. 
Hight, F. S. 
Heurich, Christian. 
Hoover, William I). 
Hochling, A. A., jr. 
Johnston, James .M. 
Johnson, O. H. Perry. 
Jackson, 3v. Hilton. 
Killeen, George. 
King, Harry. 
Kauffman, Rudol])h. 
King, Clarence P. 
Kelly, J. Fred. 
Kutz, Maj. Chas. W. 
Kann, Sigmund. 
Linkins, George R. 
Laskey, John E. 
Lamer, John B. 
Lee, Arthur. 
Leiter, Joseph. 
Lipsett, T. L. 
Lisncr, A. 
Lansburgh, James, 



Lord, Frank B. 

Moran, P. T. 

Munse}', Frank A. 

Marks, Arthur D. 

Martin, Rev. D. H. 

McCoy, Hon. Walter I. 

McLean, Edward li. 

McKenney, Frederick D. 

Mclntyre, W. C. 

Miller, John S. 

Macfarland, H. 11. I'. 

Mattingly, Roljcrt 11. 

McKee, Townley A. 

Mann, Isaac T. 

Martin, Col. John I. 

Mo.scs, A. C. 

Noycs, Theodore W. 

Ncsbit, Charles T. 

Neuhauser, Roy L. 

Newman, Comnmiissionei' ( ). P, 

Newman, E. A. 

Norment, Clarence F'. 

Noyes, Frank B. 

Newbold, Fleming. 

Oyster, George M., jr. 

Oyster, James F. 

Owens, Clarence J. 

Owen, Frederick D. 

Poole, John. 

Peyser, Julius I. 

Parker, E. Southard. 

Prince, Ben L. 

Parker, M. M. 

Pullman, R. W. 

Piekford, T. H. 

Peter, Arthur. 

Porter, D. S. 

Richardson. Dr. J. J. 

Ramsay, Arthur. 

Reeside, H. S. 

Robb, Hon. Charles H. 

Ross, Samuel. 

Rogers, E. C. 

Repetti, George R. 

Roy, Dr. P. S. 

Rudolph, Cuno H. 



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Semilies, Charles W. 
Scott, Guy T. 
Shepard, Hon. Seth. 
Siddons, Hon. Fred. L. 
Sinclair, A. Leftwicli. 
Simon, Rev. Dr. Abrani. 
Stafford, Hon. W. P. 
Steckman, F. W. 
StcUvvagen, Edward J. 
Sands, T. K. 
Sinnott, A. J. 
Saunders, W. H. 
Smith, Emmons S. 
Smith, Thomas \V. 
Schutt, George 1'. 
Spaid, W. W. 
Scott, Nathan P. 
Syme, Conrad H. 
Small, J. H. 

Scott, Maj. Gen. Hugh L. 
Sjuirgeon, William P. 
Strusburger, Joseph. 
Stoner, Mrs. W. M. 
Saks, Joseph I. 
Stockton, R. Admr. C. H. 
Saul, B. F. 



Trinilile, South. 
Tumulty, Joseph P. 
Tliom, Corcoran. 
Taylor, Rev. James H. 
Truesdell, Col. George. 
Van Orsdel, Hon. J. A. 
Vaughan, Dr. G. Tully. 
Wilcox, Grafton S. 
Wilkins, John F. 
Wilson, William J. 
Woodward, ,S. W. 
Wolfe, Edmund S. 
Whiteford, Roger J. 
Wicgaud, Martin. 
Walker, V. A. 
Whitfield, J. A. 
Wolf, Simon. 
W'hitc, George W. 
Walter, Dr. L. Durbin. 
Woolley, Robert W. 
Wilson, Gen. John M. 
Wilmer, Dr. W. H. 
West, W. D. 
Warden, C. W. 
Walker, E. G. 
Wright, U. T. 



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To \.\w I\.\nr.tiRAI< C(1MMITTER, 

Wiishintilon, D. C. 

GicntmvMijn: As chairman of the Inaugural Committee, it 
becomes a pleasant privilege to present to you my final report, 
in which is set forth certain personal observations, made 
during the three months of activities leading up to the great 
national event, when the second inauguration of Woodrnw 
Wilson was made a matter of history. 

Again he has been inducted into office, in accordance with a 
long-established custom — accompanied with the usual legal 
requirements and formalities, and with a demonstration of un- 
mistakable loyalty and confidence, on the part of the 40,000 
persons who witnessed the ceremonies on the east front of the 
Capitol. 

Probablv not for a century has a President been inaugurated 
with greater unanimity of confidence and satisfaction, as the 
president of the whole people, than was emphasized in liis re- 
inauguration on Monday, the 5th instant. 

When the oath was administered in due form and customary 
solcmnitv, bv Chief Justice White, men and women — Democrats 
and Republicans — joined in the festivities to do honor to their 
President. 

I trust it will be a pardonable trespass upon your time and 
patience if I briefly recount some of the difficulties which con- 
fronted your chairman, and the chairmen of the various com- 
mittees while perfecting the details of the many problems 
which usually beset ever)' inaugural committeeman. Of the 
many complications which arose I might name as the first, and 
one of more universal importance, was the uncertainty existing 
in the minds of many throughout the country as to the_ prob- 
ability of our becoming involved in the foreign war. Coupled 



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with this, and of no small importance was the situation exist- 
ing on the Mexican border. In addiction to these unusual condi- 
tions, we were not overlooked by our regular inaugural visitor — 
March storms — which harassed us until the early morning of 
the 5th and up to within a few hours of the actual ceremonies. 

To successfully cope with these conditions, our work was 
made more than usually difficult. Such embarassments, 
however, were, to a large degree, overcome, but not without a 
feeling of uncertainty, lingering in the minds of the people at in 
many sections of the country, which had its effect in no small 
degree upon their attendance. 

The absence of the usual munlxT of our State militia at in- 
augurations — due to the Mexican situation — considerably re- 
duced the size and length of the parade, but added features, 
which were new, created no little favorable comment on the 
part of the observer, as well as upon our highest officials. 

For the first time in the history of the country, women were, 
made members of the Inaugural Committee, and also figured 
prominently in the parade. 

Another innovation, which caused no little favorable com- 
ment, was the participation in the line of march by the "newly 
naturalized American citizens." It was conspicuously notice- 
able that each of these organizations prominently displayed 
with striking effect in connection with the American flag, ban- 
ners setting forth their nationality, with the additional signifi- 
cant legend, "We are for America first." 

It is not amiss at this time to call attention to the fact that 
the usual long and tiresome wait after the return of the President 
to the White House for luncheon, and taking his place in the 
reviewing stand, which has at times in the past exceeded an 
hour, was, on this occasion, through the cooperation of the 
President, reduced to 15 minutes, which was to the delight and 
comfort of both the participants and onlookers. 

The grand marshal. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, in contrast to former 
inaugurations, reviewed the parade with the President, which 
was recognized as a fitting tribute to one of so high a rank in 
the Army and so long in the ser\'ice of his country. 

It is with no little embarrassment that I feel called upon to 
admit that the high cost of everything did not permit its influ- 



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ences to escape us, but played an important part in the cost of 
all decorations, material, and labor over that of four years ago, 
the effect of which prevents a financial return to those who so 
promptly and generousl}' guaranteed the expenses incident to 
the inauguration, in an amount equal to my natural desire 

It was my wish and hope that every dollar advanced could 
l)e returned, if watchful carefulness on our part could bring 
about such results. Regretfully, however, I must announce 
that the strenuous vigilance on the part of ever}' one as to ex- 
penditures did not prove of sufficient avail to overcome the 
one uncontrollable item of loss through the sale of seats on 
the Lafayette stand, which loss alone amounted to more than 
$9, GOO, in comparison to the receipts four vears ago. 

I feel that it is right and proper to mention the fact that 
regardless of the advanced cost of everything over that of 1913, 
the court of honor, admittedly a work of unusual architectural 
achievement, cost little more than it did four vears ago, due to 
the ability displayed by the committee having its construction 
in charge, with Mr. J. S. Easby-Smith chairman. 

Turning now from the business and financial point of view 
to the personal side, I desire to state that it would be uimatural 
indeed if I did not entertain the warmest feeling of appreciation 
for the kindly expressions by. my many friends, who have been 
more than generous toward me in their congratulations for the 
success which crowned our efforts — the result of three months 
of strenuous work. In response to this, it is mv wish that, 
whatever credit the appreciative public has been kind enough 
to accord to me for the successful termination of this great 
event I accept most gratefully, but witli the insistence that it 
shall be jointly shared in by each of you, as I fully realize that 
loyal assistance, close cooperation, and wise counsel in everv 
detail of the work by you made my duties not only easv but 
pleasant . 

Again, I would be untrue to my own sense of appreciation if 
I failed to place in the permanent records of the 191 7 inaugural, 
expressions of my most sincere acknowledgment for tiie loval 
support to me, the personal and business sacrifices made, and 
the unstinted energy displayed at all times by our secretary, 
Mr. Alvin Or. ]5elt. From S.v>n. m., until 12 o'clock midiiight. 



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were his usual hours of labor, and all with a hearty good fellow- 
ship seldom witnessed upon like occasions by any one. The 
able and energetic assistant secretary, Mr. R. E. Brooks, the 
general clerk, Mr. W. J. Harper, and Mrs. R. Louise Herndon, 
the stenograjiher, are each worthy of the highest commenda- 
tion, which I gladly extend to them. 

It is needless for me to sax- that want of space will not permit 
the expressions of personal apjireciation entertained by me 
regarding the individual chairmen and the entire membership 
whose assistance and devotion to the duties assigned them 
(which was of inestimable value to me), no matter how great 
the desire on my part might be. I hoju", however, that each 
of you will accept my statement that necessary space alone is 
responsible for the failure on my part to a]5i)ro])riately express 
to each of you my warmest ajipreciation for the good work per- 
formed, and further I trust that, it may ever abide with you, 
as I can assure you it will with me, a lasting and pleasant recol- 
lection of a delightful association, and to assure you that the 
uniform courtesy and coo]ieration shown me at all times shall 
long 1)6 remembered. 

Yours, very truly, 

ROBT. X. lI.^RrivR. 



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HON. CHAMP CLARK 
SPEAKER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 



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ISptitrui nf dliiauguratioit iaif 

THE Inaugural day and ceremony has always been a national 
event and will no doubt continue to be. People come 
from all parts of the country to sec for themselves a President 
inducted into office in accordance to law. 

It is a sight well worth seeing, always of absorbing interest, 
no matter how often one may take advantage of the opportunity. 

The second inaugural of President Woodrow Wilson was 
more than usually attractive, due largely to the personal popu- 
larity of the President and will therefore make for itself a lasting 
place in history. 

Many of the details and necessary formalities are herewith 
presented which the writer ventures to express the hope that it 
will not only be of much interest to the present generation — 
but by comparison — to generations yet to come. 

For educational purposes the incidences are elaborated ujjon 
in detail. 

THE FIRST STKP LH.XDING VP TO THK CEREMONIES IS SIMPLE .\ND 
WITHOl'T FOR.MALITV, .^ND BEGINS WITH THE DEPARTURE 
FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO THE CAPITOL, OF THE PRESI- 
DENTIAL PARTY AND OFFICIAL COMMITTEES. 

Promptly at in. 30 on the morning of March 5, the grand 
marshal's staff swung over through the court of honor and 
halted opposite the main entrance to the Treasury Building on 
Pennsylvania Avenue. 

Immediately afterwards the President's escort .of Cavalry 
from Fort ]\Iyer arrived and formed in column of platoons in 
the court of honor. This brought a hollow square at the north- 
west gate of the White House grounds. 

While the President's escort waited, the \'ice President's 
escort arrived and took a place immediately bL-hiiid the Presi- 
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Then Troop 15, First District of Columbia Cavalry, the escort 
to the chairman of the inaiujiiral committee, arrived and took 
up a position at the nar of the Vice President's I'scort. 

MKS. WII.SiiN KllUiS WITH TRIiSlDliNT 

The devotion of Mrs. Wilson to the President was expressed 
by lur riding at his si(k' in the ])arade, both to and from the 
Capitol, and b\- sitting l)eside him all the time he stood re\ iew- 
ing the parade. Only once before did the wife (.f a President 
ride with him on inauguraliim day, and that time she nxU' only 
one way. Both Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Marshall, the wife of 
the Vice President, rode through the parade with the President 
and Vice President. The fact that the grand marslud. Maj. 
Gen. Hugh L. Scott, Chief of Staff of the Army, stood beside 
the President all during tlu' review of the parade was also an 
innovation. 

Soon after lo o'clock Maj. den. Hugh I^. Scott, Chief of Staff 
of the Army, who was grand marshal of the parade, riding a 
handsome ba\' horse with four white feet, and liis staff dis- 
tinguishable bv white sashes, formed at the .State, War, and 
Navv Building and marched through the court of honor in 
front of the While House. Behind them a squadron of the 
Second Cavalry from Fort Myer, led by Lieut. Col. Charles 
W. Fenton, I'nited States Army, took up its position in 
hollow square read\- to recei\e the President's carriage and lie 
its official escort. 

Promptly at ii o'clock the President and his jiersonal jiarly 
came from the White House. . He stepped into an open landau 
drawn b\' four prancing and mettlesome liay horses, which 
cliamped and pawed the ground fretfully. Beside him sat 
Mrs. Wilson, and in the same carriage were Senator Lee vS. 
Overman, of North Carolina, and Representative William W. 
Rucker, of Missoiui, cliairmen, respectively, of the Senate and 
House inaugural connniltees. 

DI'I'ICI.M, KSCiiKT S.MJ'TKS 

As the carriage left tlie White House grounds by the north- 
west gate the ofl'icial escort saluted. 'Iliis was the only salute 



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i^ivvii by any of ihu cscorls in the parade. The s()uadn)ii of the 
Second Cavalry, from Fort Myer, \'a., under command of 
Lieut. Cfil. Charles \\'. Fenton, closed about the carriage. As 
it moved along a score of Secret Service men marched on both 
sides, a group of White House newspaper men fell in line, and 
two automobiles and a carriage containing the White Mouse 
guests drove along at the right of the procession just behind 
the carriage of the President. 

As the official escort of the \'ice President moved up to liis 
carriage the members were made happy by a graceful compli- 
ment paid by Mrs. Marshall, who wore a Culver militarv cape 
i>f gra}', lined with yellow. Thus conspicuous, Mrs. Marshall 
divided applause with the \'ice President all along the route. 
With Ihem rode vSenator Hoke .Smith, of Georgia, and I'rancis E. 
Warren, of Wyoming, members of the Senate committee. The 
I scort was the Black Horse Troop of the Culver Military 
Academy Cadets, commanded by Capt. R. Rossow. In the 
lead rode Col. L. R. Gignilliat, superintendent of the acailemy, 
and Maj. J. Q. Adams, United States Army, retired, the mili- 
tarv instructor. Eacii man, an excellent horseman, mounted 
on coal black chargers, this organization \-. on cluers from the 
crowd the entire length of the A\enue. 

In a tl'.ird carriage rode Robert X. Harper, the chairnuui of 
the counnittee of AV'ashinglon citizens who had made arrange- 
ments for the inauguration, with Joseph P. Tunuilty, Private 
Secretarv to the President, and Representatives Finis J. Garrett, 
of Tennessee, and William 15. McKinley, of Illinois, members of 
the House counnittee. As this carriage came through tlie gate 
Troop li of the First Cavalry, District of Columbia National 
Guard, stood waiting in hollow square as ofllcial escort, com- 
manded by Capt. Leroy W. Ilerron, Lieut. John W. Thompson, 
and Lieut. J. L. Krentzlen. This is Washington's new Cavalry 
troop, couqjosed of young business and professional men, and 
made its first official ajjpearance in new luiiforms. 

The fourth carriage contained Col. W. W. Harts, United 
States Armv, the President's military aid; Conuuander Robert 
L. Berry, Llnilod States Navy, the naval aid, and vSurg. Gary T. 
Gra\'son, United .States Na\'y, the President's physician. 



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Maj. Ravniond W. I'ullinan, supeiiiik'iuUiil of Mulropulitau 
police, with a platoon of mounted jiolice, drawn up in line facing 
south on Fifteenth Street, swung in ahead of the presidential 
party. The grand marshal and his staff officers followed, 
each on a Cavalry mount that pranced with the music of many 
bands. 

CONTINIIOUS I.INU i)K TROOPS 

( )n both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue, for the entire distance 
from the White House to the Capitol, more than a mile, a con- 
tinuous line of service-hardened soldiers, fresh from the Mexican 
border, stood at attention while the jiresidential party passed. 
These troops were from the Twelfth and vSixty-ninth Infantry, 
New York National Guard, who had been ordered to stop in 
Washington on their return trip from Texas for this special 
duty, as a particular safeguard for the President at this critical 
hour in international affairs. 

Cheers and applause from the thousands seated in the stands, 
crowding at the curbstones, and watching from every vantage 
])()int greeted the presidential party as it swept down the 
Axenue toward the Capitol. President Wilson smiled con- 
tinuously at this ovation, in spite of the atlairs of state resting 
heavily upon him at the lime. 



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The Gknhr.ai. Custom (toveknini; thij In.m'gi'k.xi, Cekk- 

MONIES .\T Tin; UiN'ITlCI) ST.^TKS C.M'ITUL 

On this occasion no jiersons are admitted to the Senate wing 
of the Capitol, the vSenate galleries, the floor of the Senate 
Chamber, or the inaugural platform, except with a card signed 
by the chairman of the committee on arrangements of the 
Senate and House, except Senators, Representatives, and elec- 
tive officers, Senators-elect, ex-Presidents, ex-\'ice Presidents, 
the Chief Justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court 
and officers, members of the Cabinet, the ranking Admiral of 
the Navy and his aide, and the Chief of Staff of the Army and 
his aide. 



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Cards of admission are rigidl)' enforced, and as the capacity 
of the Senate galleries is limited it is im])ossiblc to allot more 
than two cards of admission to each Senator and Senator-elect, 
or more than one to each Representative, Delegate, and Resi- 
dent Commissioner of the House of Representatives. Owing to 
this limitation, many persons of high official connection are 
necessarily excluded. 

The strict enforcement of rules are necessary to all holding 
cards of admission to either the Senate floor or galleries, and no 
official of the Senate is permitted to deviate from the rules as 
laid down by the committee on arrangements. 

The section of the gallery known as the vSenate reserved gal- 
lery, on the eastern side, between the ladies gallery and the 
northwestern reserved gallery, is set apart for guests of the 
President, the Vice President, the President of the Senate pro 
tempore, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the 
Supreme Court, members of the Cabinet, and Senators. Six-cial 
cards are usually issued for this gallery, but no one is admitted 
without such card, regardless of h(jw high in official ])osilion 
he may be. 

The diplomatic gallery is reserved exclusively for the families 
of members of the Diplomatic Corps, and cards thereto are dis- 
tributed by the Secretary of State. 

The press gallery is reserved exclusively for the correspondents 
of the press, and cards thereto nuist be countersigned by the 
chairman of the press connnittee before they are valid. 

The guests of Senators have the northeast reserved gallery, 
and the three west galleries are reserved for the guests of Repre- 
sentatives 

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Formal K.ntk.wcic To Sii.v.vTii Ch.\mhi;k to \\'itni;ss thu 

LnI.\UGUK.\L ClJKICMONIIiS 

Tlie docs of the Senate Chamber were opened at 1 1 o'clock 
a. m. to those entitled to seats on the floor of the Senate. 

The Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives dis- 
tributes cards of identification to Members-elect, who are 
requested to accompany the Representatives of the present 
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Cards of admission to the vSeiiate Cliaiiiber arc distributed 
by the Secretary of State to the ambassadors and ministers of 
foreign countries, and they also enter at the Senate bronze door 
and assemble in the marble room from whence they are escorted 
to the floor of the Senate and formally announced as they 
enter and then directed to the section assigned to them. 

All others entitled to admission to the floor of the vSenate 
were shown to their seats upon entering the Senate Chamber. 

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pKociiKDiNGS IN Tin; .Sen.\te Ch.\mber 

The I'resident of the Senate pro tempore, Willard Saulsbury, 
called the Senate to order. 

The Senators and Senators elect were seated to the left of the 
\'ice President's desk. 

The Speaker and Members and Members elect of the House of 
Representatives were announced and occupied seats to the right 
of the \'ice I^resident's desk, and the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives was escorted to a seat on the left of the \'ice 
President's chair. 

The ambassadors and ministers plenipotentiary representing 
foreign C^overnments were announced and escorted to the seats 
reserved for them. 

The Chief Justice of the United States and the Associate Jus- 
tices of the Supreme Court of the United States were announced 
and shown to the seats provided for them. 

The Chief of Staff of the Army and the Admiral of the Navy 
were announced, and they with their aids were conducted to the 
seats assigned them. 

The President, escorted to the Capitol by the committee on 
arrangements, entered the Senate wing at the bronze door and 
proceeded to the President's room, from whence the committee 
on arrangements escorted him to the Senate Chamber. The 
President was seated in front of the Vice President's desk, and the 
committee on arrangements occu])ied seats on his right and left. 

The Vice President, also escorted to the Capitol by the com- 
mittee on arrangements, entered the Senate wing at the bronze 
door and proceeded to the Vice President's room, from whence 
the committee on arrangements escorted him to the Senate 
Chamber. 

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The chaplain, Rew Forrest J. rrettyiiiau, D. L)., olTered 
prayer, and the Secretary of the Senate, Mr. James M. Baker, 
read the proclamation of the President of the United States 
convening the Senate in extraordinary session, as follows: 

A PROCLAMATIUN BY THE PRIvSIDRNT OF THE UNITED STATES 
OF AMERICA 

Whereas ])ublic interests require that the Senate of the United States 
be convened at 12 o'clock on the 5th day of March next to receive such 
communications as may be made by the Executive : 

Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of 
America, do hercljy proclaim and declare that an extraordinars' occasion 
rc(|uires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the 
city of Washington, on the 5th day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon, of 
which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of 
that body are hereby required to take notice. 

Given under my hand and the seal of the United States at Washington 
the 23d of I'ebruary, in the year of our l.ord 191 7, and of the indcijcnrl- 
cnce of tlie United .States the one hundred and forty-lirst. 

[seal] WouuuiAV Wilson. 

By the President: 

RoiiEKT L.x.NSiNG, SccrcUiry of Stale. 

AU.MINISTU.VTION OF o.\TlI Ti ) TIIIC \IClv I'KESIDENT 

The President pro temj)ore administered the oath of ollice to 
Thomas R. Marshall, of Indiana, Vice President elect of the 
United vStates, who responded, ".So hclj) me God, in whom 1 
believe." 

The oath taken by the \'ice President is the same as that 
taken by Senators, and, as prescribed by the Constitution, is as 
follows : 

I do soleumly swear that I will suiijiort and defend the Constitution of 
the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will 
bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation 
freely, without any ment;il reservation or ])urpose of eviision; and that I 
will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am 
about to enter: so help me God. 

Following the oath the Vice President delivered his inaugural 
address. 



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CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE 



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JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE 



I. SENATOR LEE S. OVERMAN OF NORTH CAROLINA, Chairman 

2. SENATOR HOKE SMITH OF GEORGIA 

3. SENATOR FRANCIS E. WARREN OF Wyoming 

4. REPRESENTATIVE W. W. RUCKER OF Missouri (Photo by G. V. Buck. Washinoton) 

5. REPRESENTATIVE FINIS J. GARRETT OF Tennessee iPhoto by h»rbis i Ewing, w»shincton) 

6. REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM B. McKINLEY OF ILLINOIS 



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A&itrras of Hirp Prpat^M^t iHaraliaU 

The VicR PRivSinnNT, Senators, custom calls for the utterance 
of a few words upon this occasion. Were it otherwise, I should 
gladly remain silent. It may not be inappropriate to express 
my gratitude for the little nameless, unnumbered and ofttimes 
unremembered, acts of courtesy and charity shown to me by 
■the members of this bodv during the last four years; to ex])ress 
mv regret over the vanishing faces of those who are leaving us, 
and to welcome those who in a few moments are to become our 
coworkers in the cause of constitutional freedom. 

Everywhere in America are clamant and strident voices pro- 
claiming the essential elements of patriotism. He who seeks 
out of them all to select one clear note of love for country may 
fail. I conceive it to be far more important to examine myself 
1 han to cross-examine anyone else. May I make bold to insert 
in (he Record some elements of the creed which I have prepared 
in this period of retrospection and introspection? It does not 
embrace what I know, but holds part of what I believe. 

I have faith that this Government of ours was divinely or- 
dained to disclose whether men are by nature or can by educa- 
tion be made fit for self-government; to teach Jew and Greek, 
bondman and free, alike, the essential equality of all men before 
the law and to be tender and true to humanity everywhere and 
under all circumstances; to reveal that service is the highest 
rcw'ard of life. I can not believe otherwise than these things 
when I read the words and view the sacrifices of the fathers. 
If ours is not the golden rule of government, then Washington 
wrought and Lincoln died in vain. 

I believe that the world, advancing now, retreating then, is 
nevertheless assuredly moving forward to a far-off divine event 
wherein the tongues of Bable will again be blended in the lan- 
guage of a common brotherhood; that I can reach the highest 
ideal of my tradition and my lineage as an American, as a man, 
as a citizen, and as a jiublic official when I judge my fellowmen 
without malice and with charil\ ; when 1 uiirr\- more about my 



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own motives and conduct and less about the motives and con- 
duct of others. The only time I am liable to be wrong is when 
I know that I am absolutely right. In an individuaUstic repub- 
lic I am the unit of patriotism, and if I keep myself keyed up in 
unison with the music of the Union my fellowmen will catch the 
note and fall into time and step. 

I believe there is no finer form of government than the one 
under which we live, and that I ought to be willing to live or to 
die as God decrees, that it may not perish from off the earth 
through treachery within or through assault from without; that 
while my first right is to be a partisan when the principles on 
which alone free government can rest are being strained, my 
first dutv is to be a patriot, and in a wilderness of words to fol- 
low that clear call which bids me guard and defend the ark of 
our national covenant. [.\[)]ilansc on the floor and in the gal- 
leries.] 

At the conclusion of the address the vSecretary of the Senate 
read the list of newly elected vSenators to Ije sworn. In groups 
of four the Senators elect were escorted to the Vice President's 
desk, who administered the oath of office to each according to 
law and custom. 



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Thi! Procession to the Inaugural Platform 

After the conclusion of the organization of the Senate, those 
assembled in the Senate Chamber, preceded In- President 
Wilson and party, marched through the Rotunda to the plat- 
form on the center jiortico of the Capitol in the following 
order, viz: 

The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and the Sergeant at 

Amis of the House of Representatives. 
The marshal and the clerk of the Supreme Court. 
The Chief Justice, associate justices, and rejiorter of the 

Supreme Court. 
The president and tlie chairman of the committee on 

arrangements. 
The committee on arrangements. 
Ambassadors to the United States. 
Ministers plenipotentiary to the United States. 
The Vice President and the Secretary of the Senate. 
The Senate of the United States and ex-Senators. 
The Speaker and the Clerk of the House of Representatives. 
Retiring Members, Members-elect, and officers of the House 

of Representatives. 
The members of the Cabinet. 
Governors of States and Territories. 
The ranking Admiral of the Navy and his aide. 
The Chief of Staff of the Army and his aide. 
Oflicers of the Army and Navy who, by name, have received 

the thanks of Congress. 
All other persons who have been admitted to the floor of 

the vSenate Chaml)er, followed by those who have been 

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Proceedings ox the Inauourai, Platform Erected on the 
East Front of the Capitol 

On reaching the platform llic Presick'nt was seated in the 
section reserved for him, Chief Justice White on his riglit and 
the committee on arrangements with the vSergeant at ,Arms of 
the Senate on his left. 

The Vice President, the Secretary of the Senate, Senators 
and cx-Senators, occupied seats on the right. 

The Diplomatic Corps occupied seats on the right of the 
President. Governors of States and Territories, members of the 
Cabinet, the inaugural chairman, theranking Admiral of the Navy, 
the Chief of Staflf of the Army and officers of the Army and 
Navy who, by name, have received the thanks of Congress, 
occupied seats on the left. 

After all had assembled, the oath of office was administered 
to the President by Chief Justice White of the United States 
Supreme Court, which is as follows: 

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully c.xcculc Ihc olTice of President 
of the United States, and. to the best of my ability, preserve, protcet and 
defend the Constitution of the United States. 

As the Chief Justice came to the conclusion of the oath, which 
the President repeated after him, very slowly, a few words at a 
time, the Chief Justice paused for a pronounced period, lowered 
his voice, and said solemnly: "So help yon God!' 

The President slowly and solemnly repeated: "So — help — 
me — God. " 

It was found, when the President ended his solemn oljliga- 
tion, that he had kissed the Hible upon this ]5assage: 

The I/5rd is our refuge; a very present help in time of trouble. 

The Chief Justice iinmediately said to the President, shaking 
hands with him: "Mr. President, I am very, \-ery happy!" 

After taking the oath the President delivered his inaugural 
address, which is herewith presented in full. 



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Sljr 3litaugurat AWir^aa of ^^rpaibcttt Wtlamt 

My Fellow Citizens: 

The four j'ears which have elapsed since last I stood in this 
place have been crowded with counsel and action of the most 
vital interest and consequence. Perhaps no eciual period in 
our history has been so fruitful of important reforms in our 
economic and industrial life or so full of sij^nificant changes in 
the spirit and purpose of our political action. We have sought 
very thoughtfully to set our house in order, correct the grosser 
errors and abuses of our industrial life, liberate and quicken the 
processes of our national genius and energy, and lift our politics 
to a broader view of the people's essential interests. It is a 
record of singular variety and singidar distinction. But I 
shall not attempt to review it. It speaks for itself and will be 
of increasing influence as the years go by. This is not the time 
for retrospect. It is time, rather, to speak our thoughts and 
purposes concerning the present and llie immediate future. 

Although we have centered counsel and action with such 
unusual concentration and success upon the great problems of 
domestic legislation to which we addressed ourselves four years 
ago, other matters have more and more forced themselves upon 
our attention, matters lying outside our own life as a nation 
and over which we have no control, but which, despite our wish 
to keep free of them, have drawn us more and more irresistiblv 
into their own current and influence. 

KINDRED To .\LL THIv W.\RRING N.ATIONS 

It has ])cen impossible to avoid them. They have affected 
the life of the whole world. They have shaken men everywhere 
with a passion and an apprehension they never knew before. 
It has been hard to preser\'e calm counsel while the thought of 
our people swayed this way and that under their influence. We 
are a composite and cosmopolitan people. We are of the 
blood of all of the nations that are at war. The currents of our 
thoughts as well as the currents of our trade run quick at all 
seasons back and forth between us and them. The war inevit- 
ably set its mark from the first alike upon our minds, our indus- 
tries, our commerce, our politics, and our social action. To 
be inditTerent In it or indejx'udent of it was out of the question. 



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And yc-t all the while we have been conscious that we were not 
part of it. In that consciousness, despite n:any divisions, we 
have drawn closer together. W'c have been deeply wronged 
upon the seas, but we have not wished to wrong or injure in 
return; have retained throughout the consciousness of standing 
in some sort apart, intent upon an interest that transcended the 
immediate issues of the war itself. As some of the injuries done 
us have become intolerable we have still been clear that we 
wished nothing for ourselves that we were not ready to demand 
for all mankind — fair dealing, justice, the freedom to li\'e and 
be at ease against organized wrong. 

It is in this spirit and with this thought that we have grown 
more and more aware, more and more ciTlain, that the part we 
wished to play was the part of those who mean to vindicate and 
fortify peace. We have been obliged to arm ourselves to make 
good our claim to a certain minimum of right and of freedom of 
action. We stand firm in armed neutrality, since it seems that 
in no other way we can demonstrate what it is we insist upon and 
can not forego. We may even be drawn on, by circumstances, 
not by our own purjjose or desire, to a more active assertion 
of our rights as we see them and a more immediate association 
with the great struggle itself. But nothing will alter our thought 
or our purpose. They are too clear to be obscured. They are 
too deply rooted in the principles of (nir national life to be altered. 
We desire neither conquest nor advantage. We wish nothing 
that can be had only at the cost of another jx-ople. We have 
always ])rofessed unselfish purpose and we cowl tlii' opporluiiily 
to jirove that our ])rofessions are sincere. 

WORLD TIIIv ST.\(;i; nV Fl'TURi; T.\SKS 

There are many things still to do at home to clarify our own 
politics and give new vitality to the industrial processes of our 
own liic, and we shall do them as time and opportunity serve ; but 
we realize that the greatest things that remain to be done must 
be done with the whole world for stage and in cooperation 
with the wide and universal forces of mankind, and we are mak- 
ing our spirits ready for those things. They will follow in the 
immediate wake of the war itself and will set civilization up 
again. We are provincials no longer. The tragical even Is of 



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the lliiit}- iiioiillis of vital tuniioil tliroiiL;li wliicli \vc liavc just 
passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no 
turning back. Our own fortunes as a nation are involved, 
whether we would have it so or not. 

And yet we are not the less Americans on that account. We 
shall be the more American if we but remain true to the princi- 
ples in which we have been bred. They are not the principles 
of a j)rovince or a single continent. We have known and boasted 
all along that they were the principles of a liberated mankind. 
These, therefore, are the things we shall stand for, whellier in 
war or in peace : 

THINCS FOR WHICH .'\?iH!RIC.\ ST.\NnS 

Tiiat all nations are eciually interested in the peace (if the 
world and in the political stability of free peoples, and equally 
responsible for their maintenance; 

That the essential princijjle of peace is (he actual itiuality 
of nations in all matters of right or privilege; 

That peace can not securely or justly rest ujiou an armed 
balance of power; 

That governments derive all their just powers from the con- 
sent of the governed and that no other powers should be sujj- 
ported by the common thought, purpose, or power of the family 
of nations; 

That the seas should be equally free and safe for the use of 
all peoples, under rules set u]) by common agreement and 
consent, and that, so far as jiracticable, they should be accessible 
to all upon equal terms; 

That national armaments should be liniiled to the necessities 
of national order and domestic safety; 

That the community of interest and of power upon wliieli 
peace must henceforth depend imposes u])on each nation the 
duly of seeing to it that all inlluences proceeding from its own 
citizens meant to encourage or assist revolution in other states 
should be sternly and effectually suppressed and prevented. 

I need not argue these principles to you, my fellow country- 
men; they are your own, part and parcel of your own thinking 
and your own motive in affairs. They spring up native amongst 
us. Upon this as a platform of purpose and of action we can 
stand together. 



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And it is imperative that we should stand together. We are 
being forged into a new unity amidst the fires that now blaze 
throughout the world. In their ardent heat we shall, in God's 
providence, let us hope, be purged of faction and division, 
purified of the errant humors of party and of private interest, 
and shall stand forth in the days to come with a new dignity of 
national pride and spirit. Let each man see to it that the 
dedication is in his own heart, the high purpose of the Nation 
in his own mind, ruler of his own will and desire. 

BESPEAKS SUPPORT OF UNITED STATES 

I Stand here and have taken the high and solemn oath to 
which you have been audience, because the people of the United 
States have chosen me for this august delegation of power and 
have by their gracious judgment named me their leader in 
affairs. I know now what the task means. I realize to the 
full the responsibility which it involves. I pray God I may be 
given the wisdom and the prudence to do my duty in the true 
spirit of this great people. I am their servant and can succeed 
only as they sustain and guide mc by their confidence and their 
counsel. The thing I shall count upon, the thing without 
which neither counsel nor action will avail, is the unity of 
America — an America united in feeling, in purpose, and in its 
vision of duty, of ()pi)ortunity, and of service. 

We arc to beware of all men who would turn the tasks and 
the necessities of the Nation to their own private profit or use 
them for the building up of private power; beware that no fac- 
tion or disloyal intrigue break the harmony or embarrass the 
spirit of our people; beware that our Government be kept 
pure and incorrupt in all its parts. United alike in the con- 
ception of our duty and in the high resolve to perforin it in 
the face of all men, let us dedicate ourselves to the great task 
to which we must now set our hand. For myself I beg your 
tolerance, your countenance, and your united aid. The shadows 
that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled, and we 
shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to 
ourselves — to ourseh-es as we have wished to be known in the 
counsels of the world and in the thought of all those who love 
liberty and justice and the right exulted. 



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Upon the couclusiuu of the address the President and the 
\'ice President, accompanied In' the committee on arrange- 
ments, preceded by mounted pohce. Marine Band, the chief 
marshal and staff, forming the first grand division of the parade, 
proceeded by way of Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. 

The President and Mrs. Wilson, with Senator Lee S. Over- 
man and Senator Hoke Smith, occupied the first carriage in 
the procession, escorted by a troop of Cavalry, which acted as 
escort from the White House to the Capitol. 

The Vice President and Mrs. Marshall, with Senator F. E. 
Warren and Representative W. W. Rucker, occupied the second 
carriage, and were escorted by the Culver Military Academy 
Black Horse Troop. 

In the third carriage was Robert .\. Harper, chairman of the 
inaugural committee, and with him were Representatives 
William B. JIcKinley, Finis J. Garrett, and ;\Ir. Joseph P. 
Tumulty, private secretary to President Wilson. 

The escort to the inaugural chairman was Troop Ij of the 
District of Columbia National Guard. 

In the fourth carriage were sealed Dr. T. Cary Grayson, the 
President's personal medical advisor; Col. W. W. Harts, United 
States Army; and Col. Robert L. Berry, United States Army, 
personal aids to the President. 

The jjrocession moved west on Pennsyh'ania A\-enue in 
formation outlined and marshaled by ;\Iaj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, 
assisted by Maj. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, chief of staff, and Maj. 
Gen. Carroll A. Devol, adjutant. 

Arriving at the White House, President Wilson and in\ited 
guests partook of luncheon, which for the President and Mrs. 
Wilson occupied only 15 minutes, when they took their seats 
in the President's reviewing stand and viewed the thousands of 
paraders — military and civic — as they marched in review mitil 
5 o'clock. 

The President's reviewing stand was a comfortable glass 
inclosure, well ventilated by hinged windows, heated by elec- 
tricity, tastefully and comfortably carpeted, and furnished 
with leather and cane-seated chairs. 



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WiiEKiv Pkusidi'NTs IIavi; Taken ()atii dK Oi'i'ice 

Washington's first inauguration was in New York and his 
second in Philadelphia. Adams was inaugurated in Philadel- 
phia and Jefferson and the Presidents following, elected by 
the people, in the city of Washington. Arthur took the presi- 
dential oath of office first in New York City. Roosevelt took 
the oath of office, as successor to McKinley, at the home of 
Hon. Andrew Wilcox, Buffalo, N. Y., on September i6, iqoi. 

Cleveland, after taking the oath as President, kissed the 
open Hible. Garfield's first act after taking the oath was to 
kiss his mother. 

The White House, the official residence of tlie President, was 
the first iniblic building erected in Washington. The site was 
selected by George Washington himself, who laid the corner 
stone October 13, 1792, and lived to see the building completed. 
John Adams was the first occupant, in 1800. 

March 4 was selected as the date for the quadrennial induction 
into oflice of the President because the first Wednesday of 
March, 1789, was fixed by the Congress of the Confederation 
as the day for commencing proceedings under the Constitution 
of the United States, and that was March 4. 

This Constitution was adopted by the convention over which 
George Washington presided on September 17, 1787, and was 
to become effective on the acquiescence of nine of the thirteen 
original States. 

By July, 1788, ten of the Stales had ratified the Constitu- 
tion, and September 13, 1788, the Congress of the Federation 
selected the first Wednesday in January for appointing the 
electors, the first Wednesday in February for casting their votes, 
and the first Wednesday in March for commencing proceedings. 

Congress that year met on March 3, but owing to various 
causes adjournments were made from day to day until each 
House had a quorum. In Ajiril quorums were secured and the 
election was promulgated, Washington being the unanimous 
choice. 

The first inauguration was on April 30, at the Federal Hall 
in New York, and was attended by a military procession and 
illinnination. 



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ALEXANDER T. BRITTON 

1889 

HARRISON 

FORMER INAUGURAL CHAIRMEN. 1865-1889 



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ROBERT N. HARPER 

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FORMER INAUGURAL CHAIRMEN, 1893-1917 



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A Srtpf SrHitmr ai ilttaugitrattnnH B'tnrr tl)p 
(Etuil War 

The second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln occurred on 
March 4, 1865. 

The reports of bad weather for that occasion proves to the 
people of this age that no dependence could be placed in the 
4th of March, even in olden days, where the weather was 
concerned. 

Chief Justice Chase administered the oath to Mr. Lincoln. 
The inaugural ball was held the Monday night following. 

Vice President Andrew Johnson was sworn into office in the 
Senate Chamber, and Mr. Lincoln took the oath and delivered 
his inaugural address from the east "balcony" of the Capitol, 
closing with the words, "With malice toward none, with charity 
for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the 
right, let us strive on to the finish the work we are in." 

President Lincoln was assassinated on the night of April 14, 
1865, at Ford's Theater, where he and Mrs. Lincoln were in 
attendance. As the President entered his private box the 
band burst forth with "Hail to the Chief," and the audience 
rose en masse. 

At 10 o'clock a pistol shot by J. Wilkes Booth sent a ball 
into the brain of Lincoln which caused his death at 7.22 the 
next morning at 516 Tenth Street NW. 

Vice President Johnson was inaugurated as President on the 
morning of April 15, 1865, being sworn in without ceremony, 
at the Kirkwood House. 

The first inauguration of Grant took place on March 4, 1 86g, 
and it is said that the day was the most enthusiastic the Capital 
has ever known. Owing to the unfriendliness between Grant 
and Johnson, the latter did not accompany his successor to 
the Capitol. The usual inaugural ball was held in a specially 



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built building in Judiciary vSquarc. Picsident Grant's second 
inauguration occurred on March 4, 1873. The weather was 
bitter cold, a terrific gale swept Pennsylvania Avenue, the 
thermometer registering 2° below zero. The ball was again 
held in a specially constructed building north of the City Hall, 
erected by private contribution, at a cost of $30,000. At this 
time the population of the city was only slightly over 100,000. 

The inauguration of President Hayes was attended with 
little or no ceremony, due to the contest between he and Mr. 
Tilden. As March 4, 1877, came on Sunday, Mr. Hayes was 
sworn in at 7 o'clock on Saturday, March 3, by Chief Justice 
Waite, in the Red Room of the -White House. Mr. Hayes 
rode to the Capitol with President Grant and Senator Morrell, 
and the oath was a second time administered to Mr. Ha}'es 
by Chief Justice Waite. The parade was short and uneventful 
and the usual inauguration ball was dispensed with, but a 
torchlight procession was held at night. 

]\Iarch 4, 1881, recorded the inauguration of President Gar- 
field. Washington was visited on this occasion by a severe 
snowstorm, which covered I^ennsylvania Avenue with slush. 
The sun came out early, however, and the Avenue became 
dry before the parade started. Mr. Garfield rode to the Capitol 
with President Hayes and Senators Thurman and Bayard. 
The inaugural ball was held in the newly erected National 
Museum. 

President Garfield was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau, on 
July 2, 1 881, in the Pennsylvania Railroad station, Sixth and 
B Streets NW., and died from the wound at Long Branch, 
N. J., at 10.35 P- ni. on the 19th day of September. 

\'ice President Arthur was sworn in as President and successor 
to President Garfield at his residence in New York City by 
Justice Brady, of the New York Supreme Court, at 2.30 a. m. 
on September 20, 1 88 1 . For several months following the death 
of President Garfield, President Arthur occupied the Butler 
house at New Jersey Avenue and B Street SE. President 
Arthur was the last President to occupy the building erected 
as a summer home for Presidents at the U. S. Soldiers' Home in 
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The first inauguration of President Cleveland occurred on 
March 4, 1885. Mr. Cleveland rode to the Capitol with President 
Arthur and Senators Sherman and Ransom. The oath was 
administered on the east front of the Capitol by Chief Justice 
Waite, following which President Cleveland delivered his inaug- 
ural address. The weather was ideal. The parade was most 
impressive and probably one of, if not the largest, that ever 
marched up Pennsylvania Avenue. The ball was held that 
evening in the newly erected Pension Office Building. 

The inaugural of President Harrison was held on March 4, 
1889. A cold northeast rain continued throughout the entire 
day. Gen. Harrison rode to the Capitol with President Cleve- 
land and Senators Hoar and Cockrell. Notwithstanding the 
inclement weather, the parade was memorable both as to size 
and character. The ball was held in the Pension Office and it 
was estimated that 12,000 people attended. 

A cold northeast wind with a heavy fall of snow greeted the 
city on the occasion of President Cleveland's second inaugura- 
tion, which occurred on March 4, 1893. On this occasion Mr. 
Cleveland and President Harrison rode to the Capitol unaccom- 
panied. \'ice President Stevenson took the oath in the Senate 
Chamber, but Mr. Cleveland braved the weather and took the 
oath and delivered his inaugural address on the east portico. 
The ball was held in the Pension Office as before. 

The first inauguration of President McKinley was blessed 
with a beautiful day. It occurred on March 4, 1897. President 
Cleveland, with McKinley and Senators Sherman and Mitchell, 
were escorted to the Capitol by Troop A, of Cleveland. The 
parade was estimated to be four miles long. The ball was held 
at night in the Pension Office. 

March 4, 1901, was the first time for a quarter of a century 
that a President-elect rode to the Capitol as his own successor. 
This distinguished honor was conferred upon William B. Mc- 
Kinley by the voters of the United States. On this occasion 
he was accompanied from the White House to the Capitol by 
Senator Hanna and Representatives Cannon and McRae and 
escorted by Troop A, of Cleveland, Ohio. The weather was 
disagreeable in every particular. The oath was administered 
by Chief Justice Fuller. The ruin ceased during the ceremony 



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but Started again before the completion of his address. The 
downpour of rain, however, did not cause material injury to 
the parade. It was estimated that 30,000 persons took part. 
The usual inaugural ball, in all its accustomed splendor, was 
held that night in the Pension Office. 

On the evening of September 6, 1901, President McKinley was 
shot while delivering an address at Buffalo, N. Y., and died from 
its effect on September 14. Vice President Roosevelt was 
sworn in as President by Judge Hazel, of Columbus, Ohio, on 
September 16, 1901, at the home of Andrew Wilcox, Buffalo, 
N. Y. 

On March 4, 1905, President Roosevelt was inaugurated. 
The weather was clear and mild. The President was escorted 
to the Capitol by Senators vSjiooner and Lodge and Representa- 
tive Dalzell and three troops of Squadron A, of New York. 
The President's carriage was surrounded by a hollow square of 
"Rough Riders." The oath was administered by Chief Justice 
Fuller. The ball was held in the Pension Office and a dis]3lay 
of fireworks at night closed the day of inaugural activities. 

C>n the morning of March 4, 1 909, immediately after one of the 
most severe snowstorms in the history of the Atlantic States, 
William Howard Taft was inaugurated President of the United 
States. 

With no little difficulty a wide space in the center of Penn- 
sylvania Avenue was cleared of snow and slush. Notwith- 
standing, however, the severity of the weather on this occasion, 
the usual parade was held, and at night a brilliant ball at the 
Pension Office Building, and with the display of fireworks on 
the Monument Grounds the activities of another inaugural day 
were ended. 

Propitious weather favored the first inauguration of President 
Wilson, which took place on March 4, 1913. 

President-elect Wilson was driven from the White House to 
the Capitol accompanied by President Taft and Senators Bacon 
and Crane. The students of Princeton College and the Essex 
Troop of New Jersey doing the honors as escort. Forty thou- 
sand people took part in the parade. In deference to the 
wishes of the President-elect, the customary inaugural ball was 
omitted. 



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A Few Incidents of vSome of the Presidents' Adminis- 
trations FROM A Social Standpoint 

The Cleveland administrations were both brilliant from a 
social standpoint. The President and Mrs. Cleveland set a 
new record for the number of entertainments at the White 
House and for their l)rilliance. The members of the Cleveland 
Cabinet were noted for their lavish entertaining. William C. 
Whitney, Secretary of the Navy under Cleveland, gave dinners, 
receptions, and balls which were magnificent. Secretary of 
W'ar Endicott and Mrs. Kndicott also made a national repu- 
tation for the splendor of their entertainments. Mrs. Daniel 
Manning was one of the most charming of hostesses during the 
administration of Cleveland. 

In those days, however, the President and his wife did not 
attend many dinners and other entertainments outside of the 
White House. 

When President Cleveland first came to Washington to enter 
the White House he was unmarried. With him came Miss Rose 
Elizabeth Cleveland, a sister of the President, to rule as "first 
lady of the land" in the White House. She proved herself a 
gracious hostess. The first inaugural ball ever held in the 
Pension Office was that given at Cleveland's first inauguration. 
The retiring President, Chester A. Arthur, attended this ball in 
honor of his successor. 

These balls were made a regular part of the inaugural enter- 
tainment and were given in an elaborate if not an extravagant 
manner in the Pension Office at each inaugural until the first 
induction of President Wilson into the office of President of 
the United States. It was then omitted as a part of the fes- 
tivities at the special request of the President. 

President Cleveland and his sister, and later his wife, omitted 
tlie custom established b}' President Arthur of asking wives 
of prominent men outside the Cabinet to receive with them at 
the big receptions at the White House. 

When President Cleveland had been in office only a little more 
than a \'ear he married Miss Frances Folsom. This wedding 
was one of the most interesting events which ever took place 
in tile White House. The President and his bride went to Deer 



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Park, Md., for their honeymoon. The White House was reno- 
vated and refurnislied for the bride, and all. Washington was 
anxious to bid her welcome upon her return to the city. Mrs. 
Cleveland proved one of the most gracious and charming hos- 
tesses that have ever held sway in the White House. In those 
days the important receptions at the White House were those 
given for the diplomatic corps. Congress and the judiciary, the 
Army and Navy, and a public reception which fell on Washing- 
ton's Birthday, and also the New Year's Day reception. Since 
then occupants of the White House have given a special recep- 
tion to the Members of Congress and another to the judiciary, 
and have eliminated the public reception on Washington's Birth- 
day, and President Wilson has eliminated since the beginning of 
his administration all New Year receptions. 

The last Democratic administration before that of Cleveland 
was Buchanan's, just before the Civil War, in 1857. Never had 
there been a more brilliant administration socially than that of 
Buchanan up to that time. Jefferson Davis said of it: "The 
Executive Mansion resembled more a republican court during 
the administration of Buchanan than at any time since the days 
of George Washington." The brilliant and beautiful Miss 
Harriet Lane, niece of the President, presided in the White 
House. It was during this administration that the then Prince 
of Wales, who was later Kdward VII of tjngland, visited Wash- 
ington as Baron Renfrew. He was entertained, of course, at 
the White House. 

Other Democratic administrations were those of Jefferson, 
Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler, Polk, and Pierce. Jefferson 
is looked upon as the patron saint of the present Democratic 
Party, though in those days he was called a republican. The 
Federalists were the opposition party. John Ouincy Adams 
claimed to be a "Republican" like Jefferson, but, as a matter of 
fact, his principles were those of the Federalists, and the opposi- 
tion to his administration elected his successor and took the 
name of Democrats. 

SIMPLICITY iiK JKFKERSON 

Jeffersonian simplicity has become a byword. Although Jef- 
ferson liked fine horses, good clothes on sjieclal occasions, and 
lived well, he was all for republican simplicity in his enter- 
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He greatly offended some of his foreign ministers by the un- 
conventional manner in which he treated them when they 
called at the White House, receiving them in whatever cos- 
tume he happened to have on, whether appropriate, in the eyes 
of diplomats, or not. He was responsible for the elimination 
of the ball which was always given the night of the President's 
birthday. He also eliminated the big levees which had been 
held at the White House, or President's house, as it was then 
called, by his predecessors. His two daughters, Mrs. Ran- 
dolph and Mrs. John Eppes, assisted him receive his guests on 
a few occasions, but they were seldom in Washington, and it 
devolved upon the charming Dolly Madison, wife of his Secre- 
tary of State, James Madison, to preside at the White House. 

The new White House was thrown open in 1818, when Monroe 
was President, having been rebuilt after its destruction by the 
British during Madison's administration. The social life of the 
White House during the administration of Monroe was marked 
chiefly by the controversy between Mrs. Hay, a daughter of 
the President, and members of the diplomatic corps. Mrs. 
Hay prescribed strict rules of etiquette, which offended the 
diplomats. 

RIOT AT J.\CKSON RECEPTION 

When Andrew Jackson came to the White House the elegance 
which had been manifested during the administrations of Adams 
and Monroe was forgotten, and the simplicity of the days of 
Jefferson was in evidence. He gave a public reception at the 
White House the night of his inauguration which resulted in a 
riot, about 20,000 people crowding into the house. The people 
fought for food, broke thousands of dollars' worth of china, and 
almost wrecked the White House. 

There was plenty of excitement so far as social matters were 
concerned during the Jackson administration. 

The social life of President and Mrs. Roosevelt was char- 
acterized by much activity. Mrs. Roosevelt was a woman of 
remarkable energy and social qualities of the highest order. 
The younger ladies of the family. Miss Alice and Miss Ethel 
Roosevelt, were responsible for many dances, teas, and garden 
parties in addition to the formal social functions, which were 
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NIGHT SCENE FOLLOWING INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT WILSON— 

THE CAPITOL AND OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND MANY 

FLAGS BATHED IN ELECTRICITY— COURT OF 

HONOR WAS CENTER OF BEAUTY 

The color scheme on this cccasion was red, white, and blue, 
and the treatment, as the artists would put it, was to illuminate 
the flags by myriads of electric lights. 

Though the rain diminished the crowds expected to be on the 
streets, this did not interfere with the principal illumination fea- 
tures. The outstanding spot in this scheme was the Capitol, 
glistening with the rejected light of batteries of incandescent 
lights, shimmering against the rain falling on the great white 
dome. The terraces, too, were bathed in light, and the great 
building and the grounds around it formed a beauty spot that 
long will be remembered. 

The court of honor, where President Wilson reviewed the 
parade, was a Mecca for sightseers. Far from marring the 
effect, the drizzle gave an added touch of the picturesque, and 
the thousands of lights, festooned from the pillars on each side 
of the street, were mirrored in the asphalt. 

I'RODUCE NOVEL EFFECT 

At both sides of the court the intermittent play of the colored 
lights produced a novel effect in the illuminating scheme. From 
each pillar was suspended a large American flag and two small 
searchlights from the pillar opposite played on it. Special 
attention was given to the decoration and illumination of that 
part of Pennsylvania Avenue from Four-and-a-half to Eighth 
Street. Thousands of colored electric lights festooned between 
large round columns supported by a square base and surmounted 
by a golden eagle with spread wings, apparently screaming 
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The Government Pnnting Office was one of the most attrac- 
tive public buildings, with strings of lights penciling its outlines 
and a picture of President Wilson, in electric lights, set in the 
center of a map of the United States, elicited attention. On 
one side of the map was the inscription "Our Country," on the 
other "Our President." 

Every window in the front of the Municipal Building was 
lighted. On top was a row of American Hags. The Post 
Office Department Building also displayed lights from every 
window and from its tower. 

I'RIV.'VTE maLDINGS DKCORATED 

Private buildings were not behind the public ones in their 
illuminations. Some of the taller ones had long American flags 
running down between the windows, and threw lights on these 
flags from below. A great electric sign at Ninth Street and 
Pennsvlvania Avenue displayed the admonition, ' 'Stand by the 
President." A searchlight played on a flag on top of the city 
post office. The principal illumination was along Pennsylvania 
Avenue, on Ninth Street, and on F Street. The classic Treasury 
Building had no lights on it, but it stood out in bold relief in 
the flood of light thrown upon it. 



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Sunlight, which broke warm and bright through the chill, 
murkv atmosphere of the early morning, brought gladness to 
the hearts of many thousands who had been tramping the wet 
streets under a downpour, trying to see what sights of the 
Capital they could, in spite of the stormy weather. 

When the sun made its appearance a few minutes after 
9 o'clock, just as the crowds along the line of march were form- 
ing at the curbstones, a cheer went up from the Capitol to the 
White House and in all other parts of the city. 



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iRulra (^ournting ilnaugural (IlnmmtttrrB 

Tlic chairman of the Inanjjural Coinniiltee shall have full 
authority to name the chairman and vice chairman of all stand- 
ing or special committees, and with the ad\4ce and counsel of 
such committee chairmen, shall name Ihe personnel of said 
committees. 

The important, or governing connnittee, shall be known as 
the Inaugural Committee, which shall have supervision of all 
matters pertaining to the inaugural ceremonies. 

There shall also be an advisory council of i6 members, who 
shall be personally selected by the inaugural chairman, for the 
purpose of dealing with all matters retpuring prompt or imme- 
diate action. Their ruling shall be final, but said findings must 
invariablv be reported to the first meeting thereafter of the 
Inaugural Committee, and become a part of its minutes. 

The Inaugural Committee shall be composed of the officers, 
the advisorv council, the chairmen and \ice chairmen of all 
standing committees, with such other members as the inaugural 
chairman may desire. 

The Inaugural Committee shall meet regularly once every 
week, on a dav selected b\' it, or upon call by the chairman. 

The advisorv council shall meet only upon call of the chairman 
of the Inaugural Committee. 

Appropri.ations 

All contracts shall be made in the name of the Inaugural 
Committee. No debts whatsoever shall be contracted under 
any circumstances, nor money spent, until authority from the 
Inaugural Committee, or the advisory council has been first 
obtained. 

All such appropriations when made shall be reported in writ- 
ing, upon a printed form, by the secretary to the treasurer and 
the chairman of the auditing committee. This order shall set 



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forth Uie aniouiif api)n)i)riatL- for what purpose; I lu- committee 
for which such appropriation was made, and the conditions 
agreed upon for payment. This form shall he full authority to 
the treasurer, and shall not be deviated from, except with the 
consent of the Inaugural Committee or the advisory council, 
first obtained. 

P.WMENT OP Bills 

Bills presented for payment must be approved in writing by 
the chairman of the committee contracting such bills, attested 
bv the secretary as being in accord with the appropriation 
approved by the Inaugural Committee, as heretofore outlined, 
and then referred to the treasurer for payment. 

All such bills when paid and receipted must be forwarded at 
once to the chairman of the auditing committee, and retained 
by him until the final settlemen": of all accounts has been made, 
and then reported in writing to the chairman of the Inaugural 
Commiteee. 

D:tty of Standing Committee 

The duties of each standing committee are briefly outlined 
below, only, however, as a partial guide to the various chairmen, 
but this shall not be looked upon as an abridgment of the ener- 
gies, wisdom, and forethought of committees in handling matters 
assigned to them, as a successful inauguration shall be the 
primarv ojjject in view bv each committee. 

COMMITTEE ON FIN.i^NCE 

This committee shall have charge of raising the funds neces- 
sary to defray the expenses of the inaugural ceremonies. The 
funds collected shall be turned over to the treasurer of the 
Inaugural Committee, who shall make suitable acknowledgment 
to all persons contributing. 

RECEPTION COMMITTEE 

It is the duty of the reception committee to extend proper 
courtesies to distinguished guests arriving in the city, and par- 
ticularly during their presence at the various functions of the 
inauguration 



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COMMITTEE ON' T,I!GISI.ATIOX 

TIk' cominittt'f on Legislation shall have charge of all measures 
affecting the inauguration that retjuire congressional action, 
whether of national or municipal character, such as the appro- 
priation of funds, permission to use Government property, 
authority to detail officers to cooperate with the Inaugural 
Committee, and such similar matters as are approved by the 
Inaugural Committee for the protection of visitors upon this 
occasion. 

COMMITTEE ON ITHI.ICITV 

The press committee shall make suitable arrangements for 
the accomodation of members of the jiress, extending to them 
all necessary facilities, and shall have charge of the preparation 
and distribution of the news reports of the work of the Inaugural 
Committee throughout the country at large. It shall also make 
suitable arrangements for the accomodation of members of the 
press to facilitate a free distribution of news pertaining to the 
inaugural. 

COMMITTEE ON I'RINTING 

The committee on printing shall have charge of the prepara- 
tion and the printing of the official program and souvenir for the 
inauguration, shall advertise for and receive bids on the con- 
tract for printing same, and shall submit to the Inaugural Com- 
mittee a recommendation for the award of such contract. 

COMMITTEE ON .MEDALS AND BADGES 

The committee on medals and badges shall cause designs for 
medals and badges, with estimates of their costs, to be sub- 
mitted for the approval of the Inaugural Committee, and shall 
procure in the necessary quantities the medals and badges ap- 
proved and deliver them to the officers of the committee and the 
chairmen of the several subcommittees for distribution. As 
far as possible all contracts shall be let in the District of Co- 
lumbia. 

CO.MMITTEE i-)N TRANSPORTATION 

The committee on transportation shall obtain as soon as prac- 
ticable the lowest possible transportation rales to Washington 



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from all parts of the Utiited vStates at the time of the inau£;u- 
ration, and shall aiiiioiince such rates to the public as fast as 
received. 

COMMITTl-;!! ON PUIiLIC CDMKOKT 

The committee on public comfort shall render all possible 
assistance to visitors desiring accommodations in Washington 
at the time of the inauguration. It shall aid them in securing 
suitable quarters in hotels, public halls, and private residences. 
It shall obtain and keep on file accurate information regarding 
accommodations and rates of charges at hotels and other lodging 
jjlaces, including private residences where guests can procure 
rooms. It shall ascertain as far as practicable the amount, char- 
acter, and prices of board that can be supplied by responsible 
caterers for the subsistence of military and civic organizations 
in attendance at the inauguration. It shall promptlv furnish 
the committee on military organizations and the committee on 
civic organizations such information as may be desired regarding 
quarters for visiting organizations, and shall cooperate to the 
fullest possible extent with these committees in looking after 
the comfort of such organizations during their stay in Wash- 
ington. 

CO.MMITTKE ON I'UHLie (JKI)ER 

The committee on public order shall cooperate with the Com- 
missioners of the District of Columbia in securing the necessary 
means and publishing and enforcing the requisite regulations 
to clear the avenues and streets for the formation and move- 
ment of the inaugural parade, and to maintain good order in 
general during the inaugural ceremonies. 

COMMITTEE ON MIEITARV ORG..\NIZ.\TIONS AND CHIEF MARSHAL 

The committee on military organizations shall receive and 
have charge of all military organizations. It shall provide for 
them suitable quarters through the committee on public com- 
fort and keep a record showing the names, the numerical 
strength, and the location in Washington of each command. 
It shall report to the Inaugural Committee once a week, or as 
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COMMITTEE ON CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS 

The committee on civic organizations shall receive and have 
charge of all suitable quarters for such visiting organizations 
through the committee on public comfort, and shall keep a 
record showing their names, their numerical strength, and 
their location in Washington. It shall report to the Inaugural 
Committee once a week, or as much oftener as required, and 
shall be prepared at all times to make reports to the chief 
marshal of the inaugural parade, progress made in the organi- 
zation of all such bodies for participation in the parade. 

COMMITTEE ON STREET DECORATIONS 

The committee on street decorations shall be charged with the 
decoration of such avenues and streets and such public and 
private buildings as mav seem desirable, and shall be in charge 
of the plan of decoration adopted, and responsible for its proper 
execution, except that part of Pennsylvania Avenue from Fif- 
teenth to Seventeenth Streets, known as the "Court of Honor." 

COMMITTEE ON HISTORIC SITES 

The committee on historic sites shall be charged with the 
duty of marking by appropriate signs or placards such points 
of historic significance in the city of Washington as are likely 
to be of interest to visitors at the time of the inauguration. 
The same shall be put in proper and descriptive form and 
published as a part of the inaugural program and souvenir. 

COMMITTEE ON ILLUMINATION 

The committee on illumination shall prepare and submit for 
the approval of the Inaugural Committee plans and estimates 
for the illumination of such avenues and streets and such public 
and private buildings as seem desirable, and shall be in charge 
of the plan of illumination adopted and responsible for its exe- 
cution. The committee on illumination shall cooperate, as far 
as practicable, with the committee on street decorations. 
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COMMITTEE ON FIREWORKS 

The committee on fireworks shall prepare and submit for the 
approval of the Inaugural Committee plans and estimates for a 
display of fireworks on a night selected by the Inaugural Com- 
mittee, and shall be in charge of the plan adopted and responsible 
for its proper execution. 

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL TRANSPORTATION 

The committee on local transportation shall make arrange- 
ments with the owners of public conveyances for the best possible 
carriage or auto service that can be furnished at reasonable rates 
to visitors in Washington at the time of the inauguration and 
shall see in particular that a proper ser\ace is provided, without 
excessive charge. All tariff rates shall be conspicuously and 
plainly posted in each public conveyance in a way acceptable 
to the committee. 

COMMITTEE ON RAILROAD TERMINAL FACILITIES 

The committee on railroad terminal facilities shall be charged 
with the duty of securing the prompt, convenient, and comfort- 
able discharge of the various parties brought into Washington 
by the steam and electric roads and other methods of transpor- 
tation during the inaugural period, and the expeditious loading 
of the passengers for the return movement. The committee 
shall be prepared to report, from time to time, the various 
military organizations, delegations, associations, and other 
bodies of men booked to arrive, the contemplated time of 
arrival, and the location at which such parties will be handled, 
as well as the arrangement to be provided for the return journey. 

COMMITTEE ON PRESIDENT'S AND LAFAYETTE REVIEWING STANDS 
AND COURT OF HONOR 

This committee on President's and Lafayette reviewing 
stands and court of honor shall be charged with the duty of 
erecting such stands by contract or otherwise. No arrange- 
ment or agreement, however, of any kind, can be entered into 
without the approval of the Inaugural Committee first obtained. 



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It shall have supervision over all such reviewing stands. It 
shall control all privileges to be granted in connection with the 
inaugural parade, within the court of honor. The granting of 
all such privileges must be reported to and receive the approval 
of the Inaugural Committee. 

COMMITTEE ON REVIEWIXG ST.^NDs .^ND PRIVILEGES 

The committee on reviewing stands shall have charge of the 
erection or sale of the privileges of all reviewing stands 
which may be authorized, except the President's and Lafavette 
Square stands. 

All such privileges, sales, or stand construction must be sub- 
ject to the approval of the Inaugural Committee first obtained, 
and in conformity to law. 

.M'DITI.N'G COM.MITTEE 

It shall be the duty of the auditing committee to examine all 
bills authenticated by the certificate of the chairman of the 
subcommittee concerned, and to certify as to their correctness, 
and to make its report as promptly as possible to the Inaugural 
Committee or the advisor^' council. 



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Washington, D. C, March lo, igiy. 
Mr. Robert N. Harper, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee. 

Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report in 
regard to the inaugural ceremonies IMarch 5, 191 7: 

My acceptance of your courteous invitation to become 
gi^nd marshal of the parade is dated December 18, 1916, and 
following this acceptance an administrative office was estab- 
lished in the War Department and an appointment made of a 
chief of staff, and adjutant general, and two secretaries. At a 
later date General Orders No. i, from this office, announced 
the staff of the grand marshal and the marshals of the four 
grand divisions. 

An allotment of $1,000 was received to cover the expenses of 
the grand marshal's office. The expenditures and balance are 
shown in the auditor's report. This statement of expenditures 
includes no charge for office room, office fixtures, heat, light, 
or telephone service for these headquarters. 

The office of the chaimian of the Inaugural Committee, by 
mutual arrangement, undertook to initiate all correspondence 
relative to the participation in the parade of all organizations 
other than those pertaining to the Army, Navy, and Marine 
Corps. This correspondence, as soon as it became sufficiently 
definite to be of practical value, was transmitted to this office, 
and the four grand divisions organized as fast as the corre- 
spondence pennitted. This arrangement was entirely satis- 
factory, so far as the association of this office and that of the 
chairman is concerned, but, as shown in the report of the grand 
marshal of the parade four years ago, definite infonnation in 
some instances was delayed at the source until the last minute, 
and the issuance of a final order which should include all organi- 



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zations was, of necessity, delayed until barely sufficient time 
remained to permit of proper distribution. There appears to 
be no remedy for this condition as, in all human probability, 
some State or organization will be late at any inauguration in 
reporting, and therefore no change in procedure can be sug- 
gested. 

The order of precedence in the parade was practically the 
same as that established four years ago. 

To the first grand division was assigned the Army, Navy, 
and Marine Corps; to the second grand division was assigned 
the Organized Militia, military schools and colleges under 
arms, and any other uniformed and armed organization not 
belonging to the regular serx'ice. The several States were 
given order of precedence in column in accordance with the 
date of their ratification of the Constitution and entry into 
the Union. The several schools and colleges were given pre- 
cedence in column in accordance with the date of the charter 
of the institution. 

It is believed that these general rules are the most satisfactory 
that can be established under the conditions that obtain. 

The third grand division included veteran organizations and 
patriotic societies. 

The order of precedence in this division was the occasion of 
some correspondence, and a decision was finally announced bv 
the grand marshal as follows : 

A rule of precedence based on priority of service represented bv the 
veterans in the organizations, and biised on date of organization of the 
patriotic societies, would appear to determine the question immediately at 
issue. Under this ruling the applications to date would be considered as 
follows; 

VETER.\NS 

1. Grand Army of the Republic — Civil War. 

2. Spanish-American War Veterans — Spanish-American War. 

P.\TRIOTIC SOCIETIES 

3. Fusilier Veteran Association, 1787. 

4. Army and Navj' Union, 1888. 

While this ruling proved unsatisfactory to one patriotic 
society, it is believed to be the best general rule for the organ- 
ization of a division of this kind. 



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The fourth grand division was an organization of various civic 
societies. The marshal, Mr. George R. Linkins, was the chair- 
man of the committee on civic organizations, and the organiza- 
tion of this division was placed in his immediate charge, and 
accepted in the order in which he ])laced it in line. 

General Orders, No. 2, the final comprehensive order organiz- 
ing the parade, was issued February 28, at the latest date pos- 
sible under the circumstances, in order that it might be as 
inclusive as possible. It will be noted from this order that the 
arrangement for the day is divided into seven stages. This 
division is elucidated by a series of maps giving a graphic chart of 
the various stages. These maps were blue printed and distrib- 
uted to the staff and marshals of divisions. It is believed 
this successive arrangement of the events of the day is a valuable 
aid to officers charged with administrative duties. 

A map of the citv showing the route of the parade and plan 
of rendezvous of all organizations was printed and 400 copies 
given general distribution. 

One thousand copies of General Orders, No. 2, were distrib- 
uted. This distribution was carried out as effectively and 
completely as possible, but in future inaugural parades it is 
recommended that all unit commanders be directed to report 
either in person or through a staff officer to the office of the ad- 
jutant general of the inaugural parade. This is to apply in all 
cases when time of arrival permits. 

A special petition was received from the citizens of George- 
town and western Washington to continue the route of the parade 
to Washington Circle. This petition was given careful con- 
sideration in view of the recommendation of the grand marshal 
of the 1913 parade, which states: 

It is firmly believed, however, that the point of dismissal should not be 
west of Nineteenth .Street. 

Considering the length of time organizations are held in 
waiting, and on the route of march in any inaugural parade, 
and the probability of inclement weather, it is beheved that 
the parade should be continued to the nearest practicable point 
of dismissal west of the reviewing stand. Nineteenth Street 
proved a convenient point for organizations to leave the line 
of march and move north and south, and I concur and repeat 



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the recommendation made by the grand marshal four years ago, 
that the point of dismissal be not west of Nineteenth Street. 

Following the custom of previous inaugurals, insignia of 
marshals, commanders of brigades, and staff officers was 
indicated by sashes of different colors. The number of sashes 
were ordered for the occasion on an estimate from this office 
and the officials directed to provide themselves, by individual 
purchase, direct from the firm indicated in the order. This 
order received verv little attention from the majority of the 
officials interested, resulting in a mixed appearance, so far as 
insignia was concerned, and also in 195 of these sashes being 
left in the hands of the contracting firm. 

The sashes are regarded as a distinctive badge of office, 
valuable in anv parade of this kind, and it is recommended 
that, hereafter, these sashes be purchased by the Inaugural 
Committee and be given a systematic distribution. 

The grand marshal was represented along the line of march 
by seven officers detailed from the Engineer Corps, stationed 
at the seven telephone stations. Each officer was assisted by 
two enlisted men detailed by the Signal Corps; the Boy Scouts 
were available for messenger service. 

The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. rendered very 
efficient service in this connection, which service was rendered 
with no cost to the Inaugural Committee or to the Government. 

Following the custom of previous inaugural parades, a line 
of green and white pennants was established throughout the 
line of march to assist in the alignment of the various commands. 
As the line of march is governed by the varying width of the 
streets, it is not believed that these pennants have nmch prac- 
tical utility and it is thought Ihev might be dispensed with in 
future parades. 

The police arrangements were excellent. From the inception 
of the work of organization the police department was con- 
sulted and various details arranged harmoniously with that 
office, and I can not speak too highly of the efficient and zealous 
work of the chief of police, Maj. Raymond W. Pullman. 

The work and assistance rendered by the Boy Scouts deserve 
special commendation. Throughout the long hours of this 
cold, windy day these boys remained on duty — active, intelli- 
gent, and ready. They assisted in keeping the crowd in line, 



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rendered first aid in many cases, and fully lived up to tlie 
reputation they established in the inaugural parade four years 
ago. 

The general plan of preparation was carried out by daily 
consultation with Chairman Robert N. Harper and Secretary 
Alvin Ci. Belt. Both of these officials worked untiringly and 
continuously and in entire harmony with the oflice established 
by me, and it is believed that the success of the parade is due 
to the zeal and systematic cooperation which obtained. 

The veterans of the Civil War were organized as part of the 
third grand division at Four-and-a-half Street. In order to 
shorten the line of march for a number of the veterans, and in 
consideration of the uncertainty of the weather, a provision 
was made for a battalion of these men to rendezvous at Four- 
teenth Street in the National Tribune Building; they joined the 
parade at this point. It is believed that, in future inaugural 
parades, all due consideration should be given to the physical 
welfare of the veterans by a similar or other suitable arrange- 
ment. 

The escort to the President left the White House at 1 1 a. m. ; 
arrived at the Capitol at 11.42 a. m. 

The inaugural parade left the Capitol at 1.06 p. ni.; arrived 
at the White House at 1.55 p. m.; resumed the march to pass 
in review at 2.08 p. m. The last unit of the parade passed the 
reviewing stand at 4.55 p. m. 

The marshals of divisions and their associate staff officers, 
and the members of my staff, were all alert and zealous in the 
performance of their duties at all limes, and contributed in 
every way possible to the success of the inaugural parade of 
1917. My especial thanks are due to Maj. Gen. Tasker H. 
Bliss, chief of staff, and to Maj. Gen. Carroll A. Devol, adjutant 
general. 

The force in line that passed the reviewing stand was as fol- 
lows : 

Escorting column 367 

First grand division Si 4^1 

Second grand division 12, 867 

Third grand division i, 087 

Fourth grand division 6, 710 

Total 26, 4Q2 



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It gives me pleasure, in submitting this report, to testify to 
the assistance and help received by me from all members of the 
Inaugural Committee appointed by vou. 
With kind regards, I am, sir, 
Very sincerely, yours, 

H. F. Scott, 
Major-Gcnrral, United States Army, Grand Marshal. 

N. B. — Orders organizing the parade follow. 

(©rbrra ODrgajttHtny thr Snaugural Jlarair 

Inaugiral Parade, March 5, 1917 

[General Orders No. i]. 

Headquarters of the Grand Marshal, 

Washington, D. C, February 75, IQI/. 
I. The following appointments upon the staff of the grand marshal are 
announced : 

Maj. Gen. Taskcr H. Bliss, United States Army, chief of staff. 
Maj. Gen. Carroll A. Devol, United States .\rmy, retired, adjutant 
general. 

AIDS. 

Col. William M. Wright, United States Army. 
Col. Robert E. L. Michie, United States Army. 
Capt: Harrj' N. Cootes, United States Army. 
Capt. Henr>' J. McKenney, United States Army. 
Capt. Philip H. Sheridan, United States Army. 



First Platoon — Formation, in order of rank from right to left. — Col. Charles 
C. Walcutt, United States Army.; Col. A. W. Brewster, United States 
Army; Col. George B. Duncan, United States Army; Lieut. Col. Louis 
M. Gulick, United States Marine Corps; Lieut. Col. PeterC. Harris, LTnited 
States Army; Lieut. Col. Wm. S. Graves, LTnited States Army; Maj. Thomas 
J. Holcomb, United States Marine Corps; Maj. Oscar J. Charles, United 
States Army; Maj. Ralph H. Van Deman, United States Army; Surg. 
Charles E. Riggs, United States Na\-y; Maj. James G. Harbord, United 
States Army; Lieut. Com. Wm. W. Galbraith, United States Nav-y; Maj. 
Fred R. Brown, LTnited States Army; Maj. Isaac Erivin, LTnited States 
Army; Paymaster Omar D. Conger, United States Navy; Maj. Dennis E. 
Nolan, LTnited States Army. 



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Second Platoon — Formation, in order of rank from right to left. — Maj. 
Edward L. King, United States Army; Maj. Fox Conner, United States 
Army; Capt. Richard B. Creecy, United States Marine Corps; Maj. Ernest 
D. Scott, United States Army; Maj. William Mitchell, United States Army; 
Surg. George F. Cottle. United States Nav"^-; Maj. Philip \V. Huntington, 
United States Army; Maj. John J. Kingman, United States Army; Lieut. 
Charles C. Hartigan, United States Nax-)-; Maj. Kyle Rucker, United 
States Army; Capt. Frederic W. Coleman, United States Army; Lieut. 
John H. Hoover, United States Navy; Capt. R. C. Marshall, United States 
Army; Captain John B. Rose, United States Army; Paymaster Smith 
Hempstone, LTnitcd States Na\'y; Capt. R. D. Black, United States Army. 
• n. The following marshals of grand divisions are announced: 

First Grand Division (militars' and naval — regular ser\nce\ Maj. Gen. 
Tasker H. Bliss, United States Army. 

Second Grand Division (militia and cadet schools — under arms), Brig. 
Gen. William A. Mann, L^nited States Army. 

Third Grand Division (\'eterans and Patriotic Societies), Com. A. J. 
Huntoon, Grand Army Republic. 

Fourth Grand Division (civic), Mr. George R. Linkins. 

in. The insignia of marshals and of marshal's aides in the inaugural 
parade will be as follows: 

Chief of staff and adjutant general, red s;ish. 

Grand marshal's staff, white sash. 

Marshals of grand divisions, white and red sash. 

Commanders of brigades, blue and white sash. 

All staff officers except those of the grand marshal, blue sash. 

In order to insure uniformity of size, pattern, and shade, these sashes 
should be obtained direct from the Army & Navy Cooperative Co., 721 
Seventeenth Street NW., Washington, D. C; cost, $1.35 each. 

IV. The sashes described in Paragraph III will be worn from the right 
shoulder to the left side. Military officers of higher grade than brigadier 
general will wear it over their prescribed uniform sash. If overcoats are 
worn, the sashes will be worn outside the o\ercoats. 

V. The uniform will be as follows: Regular Anny, full dress; naval and 
marine officers (on grand marshal's staff), full dress; seamen contingent, 
dress blue; marine contingent, imdrcss blue; National Guard, full dress. 
Organizations not equipped with full dress will wear service uniform. 

VI. Tlie grand marshal will decide whether or not the condition of the 
weather requires the wearing of overcoats. Marshals and aids will tele- 
phone to the War Department between 8..^o and 10 a. ni. (Main 2570) to 
learn the decision of the grand marshal relative to the wearing of over- 
coats. The operator will be authorized to announce the decision of the 
grand marshal . 

By command of Maj. Gen. Scott: 

TASKER H. BLISS, 
Major General, U nited States Army, 

Chief of Staff. 
Official : 

C. A. Devol, 

.\djutanl General. 



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Inaugural Parade, JIarch 5, 1917 

[General Orders, No. 6] 

Headquarters of the Grand Marshal, 

Washington, D. C, February 28, IQI/- 

I. The President of the United States and the Vice President will be 
inaugxirated in this city on March 5, 1917. 

The success of the inaugural parade will depend upon strict compliance 
with the following orders which will govern the movement of all troops 
and civic organizations participating. 

II. Summary of ceremonies of the day. — (a) Assembly and formation of 
the escorting column: 10 a. m., the grand marshal's staff; 10.35 ^- f"' 
the troops forming the escort to the President; 10.40 a. m., the troops form- 
ing the escort to the Vice President; 10.45 ^- ™-' ^^^ troops forming the 
escort to the chairman of the Inaugural Committee. 

(fc) II a. m., escort of the presidential party from the White House to 
the Capitol. 

(c) 12 noon, outdoor ceremonies at the Capitol, assembly and formation of 
troops and organizations participating in the inaugural parade. 

((f) 12.45 P- Ti- (approximate), escort of the presidential party from the 
Capitol to the White House, followed as far as Fifteenth and F Streets NW., 
by the inaugural parade . 

(e) 1.30 p. m. (approximate), the inaugural parade, having been rejoined 
by the grand marshal and escorting column at Fifteenth and F Streets NW. , 
is resumed and the inaugural parade is reviewed by the President from 
the reviewing stand at the White House. 

(/) Dismissal of the inaugural parade at Nineteenth and Pennsylvania 
Avenue NW. 

General provisions: 

FORM.\TION 

Mounted staffs, mounted escorts, and moimted organizations. In single 
rank, in column of platoons, each platoon to be from 12 to 16 files front, 
exclusive of guides. 

Militar)- foot organizations in double rank, in column of platoons. Each 
platoon to be from 16 to 20 files front exclusive of guides. 

Civic organizations in single rank, in column of platoons. Each platc^wn 
to be not less than 20 files front, exclusive of guides. 

DISTANCES 

Foot troops and organizations: The distance between platoons and com- 
panies will be 8 paces; between companies of two or more platoons 12 paces; 
between battalions 16 paces; between regiments 24 paces; between bri- 
gades 48 paces; between divisions 100 paces. 

For mounted troops: Cavalry and Field Artillery will march at normal 
distances. 

All commanding officers will give special instructions that these distances 
shall not be increased for anv reason whatsoever. 



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The guide will be "left" throughout the entire march. A line of green 
and white pennants, on iron staves, placed along the line of march will 
indicate the left giiide. 

SALUTES 

Marshals and other commanders carrj-ing drawn swords will salute as 
prescribed in drill regulations, the commander and his staff saluting and 
resuming the carr>- together. 

The marshal of the fourth grand division and other commanders and 
members of staffs not carrj'ing drawn swords will salute the President by 
uncovering. 

All other officers, all colors and standards, noncommissioned staff officers, 
noncommissioned officers commanding subdivisions, and drum majors 
will salute and resume the carr\- as prescribed in drill regidations for their 
respective arms. The first motion of the individual salute will be made 
at 6 paces from the front of the President and the carry resumed 6 paces 
beyond him. 

CADENCE AND STEf 

The entire march will be in "qviick time" with cadence of 120 steps per 
minute, as prescribed in drill regulations. The length of the step will 
be 30 inches. Organizations, after passing the presidential reviewing 
stand, will not take up the double time. 



Quick time will be played by each band while passing the President's 
reviewing stand in the court of honor. 

A mounted staff officer, specially detailed from the grand marshal's staff, 
wearing a white sash, will be stationed on the south side of the court of 
honor, near its west entrance. At a signal from him, drum majors of bands 
will cause their bands to cease pla\'ing. 

Drum majors will use their batons or staffs only as prescribed in drill 
regulations and will not throw them into the air. 

The United States Marine Band, whose position is at the head of the col- 
umn, is the only band which will play Hail to the Chief at any time. Hail 
to the Chief will be played by the United States Marine Band while passing 
in review, before the President. 

The air, Marjdand, My Maryland, is reserved for the leading band of the 
Maryland National Guard. 

Bands and field music, in close proximity, will alternate in playing. 

In each grand division the band of the leading regiment or sitailar organ- 
ization will begin playing at First Street West; of the next regiment or 
similar organization at Second Street West; the third at Third Street West, 
and so on in succession until Sixth Street West, the object being to dis- 
tribute uniformly along the Avenue the music of the bands and field music. 

Carriages and automobiles will not be allowed in the parade except those 
carriages occupied by the presidential party. 



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Telephone booths. — There will be telephone booths at the following points: 
At the Speaker's stand, in the. grandstand at the Capitol (phone Main 
6938). 

2. At the Peace Monument (phone Main 3763). 

3. At the southwest comer of Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue 
(phone Main 1826). 

4. At the southeast conicr of the Trcasur)-, Fifteenth Street and Pennsyl- 
vania Avenue (phone Main 7298). 

5. At the northeast comer of the Treasury (phone Main 7153). 

6. In the reviewing stand of the President (phone Main 7 116). 

7. At the southeast comer of Nineteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue 
(phone Main 7055). 

At booths will be stationed mounted Army staff officers, with the excep- 
tion of Nos. I and 6, who will be dismounted. These staff oflficers will 
repre.sent the grand marshal. It will be their duty to see that the column 
is kept closed and moving and to communicate with the grand marshal as 
to the progress of the parade at their respective telephone booths. 

The insignia of marshals, marshal's aides, and other staff officers in the 
inaugural parade will be as follows: Chief of staff and adjutant general, 
red sash: grand marshal's staff, white sash; marshals of grand divisions, 
white and red sash; commanders of brigades, blue and white sash; all 
staff officers except those of the grand marshal, blue sash. These sashes 
will be worn from the right shoulder to the left side. 

Military officers of higher grade than brigadier general will wear it over 
their prescribed uniform sash. If overcoats are worn the sashes will be 
worn outside the overcoats. 

Aide! to the marshals of grand (/jnwiojw. ^Marshals of grand divisions will 
designate one staff officer of their staffs for each brigade or corresponding 
unit in their grand divisions. This officer, having been previously made 
thoroughly familiar with his duties, will conduct his assigned unit to its 
proper place of assembly. He will then report to the marshal of his grand 
division. vSuch officers will accompany the marshals of grand divisions 
throughout the march of the parade and take post with the said marshals 
at the point of dismissal. The marshals of grand divisions will be jjrepared 
to report to the grand marshal, at an)' time, the progress of the assembly 
or dismissal of their grand divisions. 

Belated organizations will form column, facing south, on First Street 
NW,, with head of column at north side of B Street NW. These will 
compose the rear elements of the parade and will follow the last unit of 
the parade named in this order. Belated organizations will take pre- 
cedence in line according to the time of arrival on First Street. 

Messages to the grand marshal on March 5, 1917, should be sent as follows: 

Before 10 a. m., to room 223, War Department. Telephone Main 2570, 
branch 77. 

Between 10 a. m. and 10.25 ^- "i" ^" ^^e south court of the State, War, 
and Navy Building. 

Between 10.25 2. m. and 11 a. m., in front of the Treasury. 



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Between ii a. m. and 12.30 p. m., to the Speaker's stand at the Capit jI. 
Telephone Main 6938. 

Between 12.30 p.m. and 2 p. m., to the head of the parade. 

Between 2 p. m until the hust element of the parade has passed the Presi- 
dent, to the reviewing stand, White House Grounds. Telephone Main 
7116. 

The adjutant general of the inaugural jiarade will be at the head of the 
parade at all times. 

The dismissal of the parade will take ijlace at Nincteentli .Street and 
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., as follows: 

Organizations quartered south of Pennsxlvania Avenue, will mo\-e south 
through Nineteenth Street to F Street NW., thenec east on K .'■'.trect to Sev- 
enteenth Street NW., thence south to B Street, and by the most direct route 
to their respective quarters. 

Organizations (|uartered north of Pennsylvania Avenue will move nirth 
through Nineteenth Street NW., to K Street NW., and by the most direct 
route to their respective quarters, except that no organization niarehlng east 
will turn south of K Street imtil beyond Fourteenth Street NW. 

To avoid congestion in rear and its extension back through tjie colunni, 
organizations passing the point of dismissal will not change their formation 
until at least four blocks beyond Nineteenth .Street and Pennsylvania 
Avenue. No organization will be permitted to fall out of the column until 
regularly dismissed. Commanding officers of all organizations will make 
ample use of their staff officers to coninumicatc with their organization 
coimnanders and to assist in kee])ing them closed up and moving through 
the entire line of march imtil they have reached their quarters. 

Marshals of grand divisions and their staffs will take post at Nineteenlh 
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue and remain luitil the last unit of their 
division has pa,ssed. 

Staff officers in each grand division will be designated by the marshal of 
each grand division to conduct each imit to the nr>rth or south according to 
the location of their quarters or point of leaving the city. 

Marshals of grand divisions will use prompt measures to insure the proper 
closing of their colunm during the interval between the time of halting the 
escorting column in the vicinity of Fifteenth and F" Streets and tlie com- 
mencement of the review. Grand divisions slvmld be closed accurately at 
the head once and for all, so that subdivisions in the rear can close up and 
halt at their proper distance witliout delay. During the entire march no 
organization, military or civic, will execute any change of formation or 
perform any exhibition movement whatsoever. Neither governors of 
States nor marshals of grand divisions, nor commanders of brigades, nor of 
any other imits w ill leave the colunm to go on the reviewing stands or fall 
out to review their troops, but each will continue to march with his com- 
mand to the place where the organization is to be dismissed. Organizations, 
upon reaching the point of dismissal of the parade (Nineteenth Street and 
Pennsylvania Avenue) will not change their formations, but will continue 
in the same formation until at least four blocks awa\', in order to avoid 
congestion in their rear. 

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III. Uclaili of ceremonies of the day — Assembly and formation of cseorlinii 
column — firsl stage. — lo a. in. Grand marshal 's staff assembles in soiitli cc mrt 
of State, War, and Navy Building fur instructions. 

10.25 a. m. Grand marshal 's staff forms in colunm of fours with platoons in 
order from front to rear, in south court of State, War and Na\';>' Building. 

10.30 a. m. In same formation proceeds to court of himor, forms column 
of platoons l)y executing platoons left front into line and halts so that the 
first platoon is just opposite the center of the center steps of the TreasuPi' 
Department on Pennsylvania Aventic. 

The grand marshal's staff is then in column of jilatoons, facing east. 
Colors and guard, the chief of staff, adjutant general and two aids in order 
from front to rear, ;is stated, are in front of the leading platoon of the grand 
marshal's staff. Orderlies form a platoon in rear of the last platoon of the 
staff. 

10. 3t a. m. The escort to tlie I'resident forms in colunm of jilatoons in the 
court of honor, in rear of gnrnd marshal's staff with flank riders in the center 
of the colunm. This hollow square to be immediately o]i])osile the north- 
west gate of the White House Grounds ready to receive Uie Presidcnl s 
carriage. The escort salutes the President as his carriage leaves the While 
House Grounds. 

10.40 a. m. The escort to the Vice President forms in colunm of platoons 
on Pennsylvania Avenue in rear of the escort to tlic President, with flank 
riders in position ready to receive the Vice President's carriage when the 
hollow square arrives opjiositc the northwest gate of the White House 
Grounds. The escort to the \'ice President closes on and follows the 
escort to the President when the escort to the President moves forward. 
(Time will not permit of a salute being rendered l)y an\- escort other 
than the escort to tlie President.) 

10.45 a. m. The escort to the chairman, Inaugural Conmiittec, forms in 
column of platoons on Pennsylvania Avenue in rear of the escort to the 
\ice President, with flank riders in jjosition ready to receive the carriage of 
the chairman. Inaugural Committee, when the hollow square arrives (j])po- 
site the northwest gate of the White House Grounds, as the escort to the 
chairman. Inaugural Conunittee, closes on and follows the escort to the Vice 
President when the escort to the \'ice President moves forward. (Time 
will not permit of a salute being rendered by any escort other than the 
uscort to the President.) 

II a. m. The major and superintendent of Metropolitan police and an 
escort of mounted police will be formed facing south on l'"ifteenth Street 
NW., near G Street, at 10 a. in. and will await the escorting column. 

I\'. Second stage — Escort from the IVhite House to the Capitol. — 11. a. m. 
The presidential party (in carriages) and the grand marshal will leave tlie 
White House. The grand marshal and aides will leave the White House 
Grounds by the northeast gate. The presidential party will leave the 
White House Grounds by the northwest gate. I'lach carriage in siiccessi<m 
enters the hollow stiuare as its escort arrives opposite the northwest gale of 
tlie White House Grounds. 



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The escort lo Ihc President will salute as the carriage of the President 
emerges from the northwest gate of the White House Grounds. 

On coming to the earn,-, the leading platoons of the escort to the President 
will immediately face to the front (east) and the whole escort will close upon 
and follow the grand marshal's staff. 

The escort to the Vice President and the escort to the chairman, Inaugural 
Committee, will keep closed-in column, halting at the northwest gate of the 
White House Grounds only long enough to allow the carriages with the 
escorts to enter their respective holloxv square. 

The grand marshal will signify to the chief of staff when tlie parade is lo 
start. 

V. Third slaije — Approach to the Capitol. — 11.30 a.m. The Marine Band 
will assemble in the southeast comer of the space roped off southeast of the 
Capitol and remain there until the escort of mounted police h;is halted in 
that space. 

The major and superintendent of Metropolitan police and escort of 
mounted police on the arrival of the escorting column will precede 
it to the Capitol via Pennsylvania Avenue, I'"irst Street NW., and B vStreet 
North, will enter the Capitol Grounds from B Street North at the Delaware 
Avenue entrance, proceed to the Senate steps, thence to the roped -off space 
at the southeast comer of the Capitol and halt. (Sec diagram of forma- 
tions. ) 

The Marine Band will enter the column for the parade close upon the 
escort of mounted police and halt immediately the nioimted police has 
halted in the roped-off space south and cast of the Capitol. 

The grand marshal's staff w ill follow the escort of mounted police through 
the entrance of the Capitol Grounds (junction of Delaware Avenue and 
B .Street NW), where they will execute the following movements: 
Columnhalf left; column half right; on right into line and halt (when the 
leading platoon has arrived opposite the north end of the Senate stepsi. 

The escort to the President will pass between the staff and the Senate 
steps. The platoons preceding the President's carriage will follow the 
route taken by the escort of mounted police <-md halt in rear of the mounted 
police, leaving sufficient s])acc for the grand marshal and his staff to reenter 
the column between the mounted police and the escort to the President 
(approximately 50 yards 1. Innnediately the President's carriage has 
cleared their front, tlie platoons in rear of the President's carriage will 
follow the route taken by the preceding ]>latoons of the President's escort 
close upon them and halt. 

The escort to the Vice President and the escort to the chairman, Inaugural 
Committee, will follow and close upon the platoons of the escorts which 
immediately precede them. 

Carriages, presidential party, after discharging their passengers at the 
Senate steps, will proceed through the drivexiay under the Speaker's stand 
and halt at the southwest corner of the Speaker's stand, where they uill 
remain until the escorting column returns from the south front of the Capitol. 



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The grand marshal (as Chief of Staff, United States Army), and one aide 
will accompany the presidential party to the Senate Chamber. When the 
grand marshal leaves his staff to accompany the presidential party, the 
chief of stafT will take command of the first grand division. From this time 
until the grand marshal rejoins his staff the adjutant general will represent 
the grand marshal. 

The grand marshal's staff, after the occupants of the last carriage have 
entered the Capitol, will proceed to and take position in the column in the 
place left vacant between the Marine Band and the escort to the President, 
by executing the following movements: Right forward, fours right; column 
left (pass to the right of troops already in column : when head of the column 
of fours of the staff nears its place the command will be given); jilatouns, 
left front into line; halt. 

The adjutant general will give the signal for the escorting eolunm, led 
by the platoon of mounted police, to continue the march in the roiied-off 
space southeast of the Capitol. Ch;mges of direction will be executed by 
the platoon of mounted police so that the head of the column will reach the 
southwest comer of the Speaker's stand and halt, facing north, in jjroper 
order for resuming the march after the President's inaugural address. 

VI. Fourth stage — After the President's inaugural address. — The adjiitant 
general will give the signal for the parade to take up the march to the White 
House. The grand marshal and aide will rejoin the staff at the close of the 
President's inaugural address. Each carriage of the presidential party 
will immediately enter tlic hollow square of its proper escort, sto])ping at 
the Speaker's stand only long enough to receive its pa.ssengers. The 
escorting troops will halt at the southeast comer of the Speaker's stand just 
long enough to allow each carriage of the presidential party to enter the 
column in the same order in which they marched from the White House to 
the Capitol. (See "Each carriage, presidential party," above.) The 
marshal, first grand division, with his staff, will follow the last carriage of 
the presidential party. 

VII. Fifth stage — Return of the President's parly to the Wliite House, 
lefonning head of parade. — The main eolunm will follow the_cseorting tr<x)ps 
to the junction of F and Fifteenth Streets NW., where they will be halted 
at the signal of tlie marshal of the first grand division. This cohunn will 
remain halted in this position and will be joined later by the grand marshal 
and the escorting eolunm. 

Route of parade. — Delaware Avenue entrance; on 15 Street to F'irst 
Street NE., to Peace Mcmunient; on Pennsylvania Avenue lo I'ifteenth 
Street; on Fifteenth Street to E Street. (For continuation of "Route of 
parade" sec "Seventh stage." 

VIII. Si.rth stage — Formation in eourl of honor on return to White House 
from Capitol. — The escorting column will proceed throtigh the court of 
honor and halt when the escort to the chairman Inaugural Committee has 
cleared the northwest gate to the White House Groimds. 

Each carriage of the presidential party will turn out of the eolunm at the 
northwest gate of the White House Grounds a,nd proceed to the White 
House unaccompanied by any escort, the escorts remaining in eolunm. 



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The escorting column will wlicci about ('l)y fours) and without further 
change of formation will proceed to the head of the first grand division at 
Fifteenth Street near G (wheel about by fours) and face to the front and 
take position for passing in review. 

IX. Seventh stage. — Passing in review through court of honor. — The grand 
marshal will put the parade in march when word has been received that 
the president has entered the reviewing stand. 

The inaugural parade will be reviewed by the President from his stand 
on the south side of the court of honor at i.j;o p. m. (approximated ). 

Route of parade. — From F Street and Fifteenth vStreet north to junction 
of Fifteenth Street, New York Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue, west 
through court of honor, thence on Pennsylvania Avenue to Nineteenth 
Street, where the parade will l)e dismissed. (vSee " Dismiss;ilof the parade. ") 

The grand marshal's staff will continue in the parade to Nineteenth 
Street N\V., where they will perform duties assigned them by the grand 
marshal. 

FORMATION FOR CEREMONIKS .\T CAPITOI. AND ASSEMBLY FOR PARADE 

The various commanders, their staffs, and their respective organizations 
will be formed in the vicinity of the Capitol according to the instnictions 
set opposite their names or troops in the following lalile. 



-«. PL.^TOON OF METROPOLITA.V POLICE 

In line facing south on Fifteenth vStreet NW. at junction of New York 
Avenue and Fifteenth Street: 

Maj. Ravmond \V. Pullman, superintendent of Metropolitan police; 
platoon moxmtcd police, ii a. m.: Marine Hand, ii.^o a. m. at Capitol. 

GRAND MARSHAL AND STAFF 

In column of fours in the south court of the State, War and Navy Depart- 
ment (10.25 a. m.); 

Maj. Gen. Hugh L. vScott, United vStates Army, grand marshal. 

Maj. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, United States Army, chief of staff. 

Maj. Gen. Carroll A. Devol, United States Army, retired, adjutant gen- 
eral . 

.Mdes.—Co\. Williams M. Wright, United vStates Army; Col. Robert H. L. 
Michie, United States Army; Capt. Harry N. Cootes, United States Army ; 
Capt. Henry J. McKenney, United States Army; Capt. Philip H. Sheri- 
dan, United States Army. 

Staff — First platoon — Formation in order of rank fiom right to left. — Col. 
Charles C. Walcutt, United States Army; Col. A. W. Brewster, United States 
Army; Col. George P.. Dimcan, United States Army; Lieut. Cul. I.ouis M. 
Gulick, United States Marine Cor])s; Lieut. Col. Peter C. Harris, I'nited 



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States Army; Lieut. Col. William S. Graves, United States Army; Maj. 
Thomas J. Holcomb, United States Marine Corps; Maj. Oscar J. Charles, 
United States Army; Maj. Ralph H. Van Deman, United States Army; 
Surg. Charles E. Riggs, United States Navy; Maj. James G. Harbord, United 
States Army: Lieut. Comdr. William W. Galbraith, United States NavA'. 
Maj. Fred R. Brown, United States Army; Maj. Isaac Erwin, United 
States Army; Paymaster Omar D. Conger, United States Navy; Maj. Den- 
nis R. Nolan, United .States Army. 

Secoiiil Platoon — Formation in order of rank from right to hfl. — Maj. H^dward 
L. King, United States Army; Maj. Fox Conner, United States Army; 
Capt. Richard R. Creecy, LJnited States Marine Corps; Maj. Ernest D. 
Scott, United States Army; Maj. William Mitchell, United States Army; 
Surg. George F. Cottle, United States Navy; Maj. Philip W. Huntington, 
United States Army; Maj. John J. Kingman, United States Army; Lieut. 
Charles C. Hartigan, United States Navy; Maj. Kyle Rucker, United States 
Army; Capt. Frederic W. Coleman, United States Army; Lieut. John H. 
Hoover, United States Navy; Capt. R. C. Marshall, United States Army^ 
Capt. John B. Rose, United States Army; Paymaster Smith Hempstone, 
United States Navy; Capt. R. D. Black, LInitcd States Army. 

Third Platoon. — Mr. William Phillips Eno; Mr. J. B. Thomas; Mr. Eliot 
Wadsworth; Maj. Richard Stockton, jr.; Mr. L. M. Scott; Gen. James E. 
Stuart; Mr. Richard .Stockton. 

ESCORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

In column, with hollow square, ready to receive tlie carriage of the 
President, in court of honor. Hollow square opposite the northwest gate 
of the White House Grounds (10.35 ^- ™)- 

Squadron Second I'nited .States Cavalrj-, Lieut. Col. Charles W. Fenton, 
United .States Army, commanding. 

ESCORT TO THE VICE PRESIDENT 

In column, with hollow square, ready to receive the carriage of the 
Vice President, head of column closed on President's escort (10.40 a. m. ): 

Black Horse Troop, Culver Military' Academy, Capt. Robert Ro^sow, 
C. M. A., commanding. 

ESCORT TO THE CHAIRMAN, INAUGURAL COMMITTEE 

In column, with hollow square, ready to receive the carriage of the chair- 
man of the Inaugural Committee (10.45 ^- ™-)- 

Troop B, First District of Columbia Cavalr)', National Guard, Capt. 
Leroy W. Herron, commanding. 

First Grand Division 

At New Jersey .\ venue and B .Street SE. entrance to the Capitol Groimds 
( 1 2 noon ) : 

Maj. Gen. Tusker II. Bliss, United .Slates Army, marshal. 



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Staff.— Col. Stephen H. Elliott, United States Army, chief of staff; 
Lieut. Col. William M. Cruikshank, United .States Army, adjutant general ; 
Maj. James A. Woodruff, United States Army; Capt. Aubrey Lippincott, 
United States Army; Leiut. Commander David M. Le Breton, United 
States Navj'; Leiut. CoL William B. Lemly, LTnited States Marine Corps; 
Cadet Lieut. John M. Devine, United States Military Academy; Cadet 
Lieut. Charles H. Gerhardt, United States Militan,' Academy; Midship- 
man H. W. Jackson, First Class, United States Naval Academy; Midship- 
man W. RImore, First Class, United States Naval Academy. 

FIRST BRIGADR 

On R .Street SE., head of column at New Jersev Avenue i 12 nnon): 

Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn, United States Army, commanding. 

Ignited .States Corps of Cadets, Col. Guy V. Henry, I'nited States .\rmy, 
commanding. 

United States Midshipmen Regiment, Lieut. Commander Sinclair Gan- 
non, I'nited .States Navy, commanding. 

SECOND BRIGADE 

Head of column at R .Street and First Street SE.: column extends south 
on First Street SE. 112 ncxmi: 

Col. .Stephen M. Foote. L'nitcd .States Army, commanding. 

Company of Engineers, Capt. John N. Hodges, commanding. 

Provisional regiment. Coast Artillery Corps, Col. Stephen ^L Foote, 
United States Army, commanding. 

THIRD BRIGADE 

Head of column on R Street and New Jersey Avenue SE. ( 12 noon): 

Capt. Albert P. Niblack, Ignited States Navy, commanding. 

Marine detachment, Col. Charles G. Long, United States Marine Corps, 
commanding. 

Regiment of .seamen. Commander William .\. Moffett, United .States 
Navy, commanding. 

.Second Grand Division 

Head of grand division, facing west on 15 Street SE., at First Street SE. 
(12 noon): 

Brig. Gen. William \. Mann, United States Army, marshal. 

.Staff. — Col. Jesse McI. Carter, United SUites Army, chief of staff; Lieut. 
Col. Charles Gerhardt, United States Army, adjutant; Maj. Joseph C. 
Castner, United States Army; Maj. H. R. Clark, United States Army. 
Capt. D. T. Merrill, United States Army; Capt. W. N. Hughes, jr.. United 
States Army; Capt. H. P. Hobbs, United .States Army; Capt. T. M. Spanld- 
ing. United States Army. 

district of COLUMBIA TROOPS 

Head of troops in rear of staff of marshal, second grand division facing 
west on B .Street .SE., near First Street SE.: 
Brig. Gen. William 1{. Harvey, conunanding. 



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Staff. — Maj. Lutlier H. Rciclieklerfer, Maj. Alfred P. Robbins, Maj. 
Thacker V. Walker, Maj. Francis B. Wheaton, Capt. Edward M. Nevils, 
Capt. Louis C. Wilson. 

In closed column on B Street SE., facing west; head of column near 
First Street SE. (12 nrjoni: 

Third District of Columliia Infantry, Col. Glendie B. Young, conunanding. 

First Separate Battalion, District '<! Cnlumliia Infantry, Maj. James E. 
Walker, commanding 

First Company District of Cohuiil)ia Coast Artiller\-, Capt. Walter W. 
Burns, commanding. 

Battery A, District nf Columlii.i Field .\rtillen,-, Capt. Louis C. Vogt. 
commanding. 

Battery B, District i>f Colinnbia Field Artillery, Capt. George O. Wilsun, 
commanding. 

Troop A, District of Columbia Cavaln,', Capt. James H. Washliurn, cnm- 
manding. 

Company I!, District of Coluuiliia Signal Corps, Ca]it. Oliver C. Tern,-, 
conunanding. 

Field Hospital Company, No. i District nf Culumbi.i, Capt. William B. 
Hudson, conunanding. 

Naval Battalion, District of Columlji.i, Commander R. B. Brunmiett, 
conunanding. 

DKI..\WARi; STATi; TROOPS 

Head of State troops, facing west on li Street SE., closed on last District 
of Columbia tnxjps; 

Gov. John G. Townsend. jr., commanding. 

Staff.— Brig. Gen. I. P. Wickersham, Brig. Gen. T. C. DuPont, Brig. Gen. 
A. P. Corbit, Col. J. Ivmest Smith, Col. John J. Satterthwaite, Col. Harrison 
W, Howell, Col. Wm. D. Denny, Col. George W. Sparks, Col. George A. 
Elliott, Col. Sirman D. Marvil, Lieut. Col. H. G. Cavenaugh, Maj. W. E. 
Stover, Maj. Edward G. Bradford, jr., Maj. William Marshall, jr., Maj. C. A. 
Short, Capt. Joseph C. Lawson. 

In closed column facing west on B Street SE., head of troops closed on 
governor's staff (12.10 p. ni.); 

First Separate Battalion, Delaware Infantn.-, National Guard, Maj. J. 
Warner Reed, commanding. 

Second Separate Battalion, Delaware Infantry, National Guard, Capt. 
L. B. Jacobs, commanding. 

Detachment Sanitary Troo])S, First Lieut. R. W. Tondinson, commanding 

PENNSVl.VANIA STATI! TROOPS 

Head of State troops facing snith on Third Street SE., at B Street SE. 
(12.10 p. m.): 

Ciov. M. G. Brumbaugh, commanding. 



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Staff. — Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Stewart, adjutant general : Maj. Gen. Charles 
M. Clement, Brig. Gen. C. T. O'Neill, Brig. Gen. Frank K. Patterson, re- 
tired. Col. Joseph K. Weaver, Lieut. Col. Walter T. Bradley, Lieut. Col. 
Louis J. Kolb, Lieut. Col. John Ciribbel, Lieut. CoL Edward M. Young, 
Lieut. Col. Charles A. Rook, Lieut. Col. L. Benton Long, Lieut. Col. Fred 
Taylor Pusey, Lieut. Col. George Hugo Smith, Maj. Frank D. Bear\-, Maj. 
J. Warner Hutchins, Maj. L. ^'. Rausch. Maj. David J. Davis, Maj. Oscar 
T. Taylor, Maj. W. Judd Crookston, Maj. Henr\- A. Reninger, Maj. Cleon N. 
Berntheisel, Capt. William L. Hicks, Capt. Leo A. Luttringer, four noncom- 
missioned officers 

In closed column facing south on Third Street SIv.. with head of cnlunm 
closed on governor's staff ( 12.10 p. m.): 

Provisional Brigadeof Infantr^^ Brig. Gen. William G. Price, commanding 

Sixth Regiment Infantry-, Col. Thomas Biddle Kills, commanding. 

Sixteenth Regiment Infantrs', Col. George C. Rickards, conunanding. 

Provisional Regiment Infantry, Col. Ivduard C. Shannon, conunanding. 

NHW JERSKV ST.ATH TROOPS 

Head of State troops facing south cm Tliird Street SK., closed on last 
Pennsvlvania troops (12.15 P- "i'- 

Gov. Walter K. Edge, commanding. 

Staff. — Brig. Gen. Charles W. Barber, adjutant general; Brig. Gen. C, 
Edward Murray, quartermaster general.; Col. Myron W. Rorinson, pers<inal 
aid-de-camp; Lieut. Col. William G. Schaufflcr, Lieut. Col. Mahlon R 
Margerum, Maj. James E. Hayes, jr., Maj. Arthur H. Mackie, First Lieut. 
Edwin C. Feigenspan. 

In closed column facing south on Third Street SR., head of troops closed 
on governor's staff 1 12.15 P- "i)- 

Maj. Hobart B. Brown, commanding New Jersey troops. 

Provisional Troo]5S A and B, First Squadron, New Jersey Cavalr>'. Capt. 
Wilbour Kyle, commanding. 

Battery B, New Jersey Field .\rtillery, Capt. Sanuel G. Barnard, com- 
manding. 

M.\SSACHrSETTS STATIv TROOPS 

Head of State troops facing north on Third vStreet SE., near B Street 
SE.; in closed column facing north on Third Street SE., with head of 
column closed on governor's staff (11.50 a. m.): 

Gov. Samuel W. McCall, commanding. 

Staff.— Col. Edward L. Loman, Col. John H. Sherbiun, Capt. T. Gallup, 
Capt. Phillip L. Schuyler, Capt. Henry D. Cormerais, Capt. Charles M. 
Rotch, Capt. Harry C. Martin, Capt. Winfred C. MacBrayne. 

First Corps of Cadets, National Guard, l.ieut. Col. F. A. Joy, commanding. 

Companies A and I. Sixth Infantry, Ca])t. Michael J. Dee, commanding. 

Company I), Sixth Infantr>', Capt. J. J. McDowell, commanding. 



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MARYLAND STATE TROOPS 

Head of State troops facing north on Third Street SR., closed on last 
Massachusetts troops; in closed column facing north on Third Street SE., 
head of column closed on governor's staff (11.45 ^- ™-)- 

Gov. Emerson C. Harrington, commanding. 

Stajf. — Brig. Gen. Henr\' M. Warfield, adjutant general and chief of staff; 
Brig. Gen. Carl R. Gray, Brig. Gen. Harvey I.. Cooper, Brig. Gen. George 
Cater, Brig. Gen. B. Howell Griswold, Brig. Gen. William S. Baer, Col. 
Henry J. Waters, Col. Zoero H. Brinsfield, Col. Charles R. Disharoon, Col. 
Harry J. Hopkins, Col. Gt-orge W. Rife, Col. Ednunul Dickey, Col. Charles 
]<:. McPhaill, Col. J. Hubert Wade, Col. T. Rowland Thomas, Col. Robert 
A. Johnson. 

Brig. Gen. Charles D. Gaither, commanding troops. 

First Maryland Infantry, Col. Charles A. Little, commanding. 

Fourth Marvland Infantry, Col. H. C. Jones, commanding. 

Troop A, Cavalry, Capt. R. G. L. Heslop, commanding. 

Naval Militia, Comdr. Ch;irles F. Macklin, commanding. 

VIRGINIA STATE TROOPS 

Head of governor's escort facing north on Second Street vSE., near B 
Street SE.; in closed column facing north on Second Street SE., with head 
of column closed on governor's staff 1 11.50 a. m.): 

Gov. H. C. Stuart, commanding. 

.S:(<i#.~Col. Juliet H. Hill, chief of staff; Col. Richard Lee Beale, Col. 
Albert R. McC. Bullington, Col. Thos. J. Gowning, Col. Thos. F. Goode; 
Col. William King, Col. W. H. Langhome, Col. John B. Pinner, Col. J. D. 
Richards, Col. Albert J. Terrell, Col. Elijah B. Wliite, Col. Richard F. 
Bieme, Col. P. P. Beans, Col. K. N. Gilpin, Col. A. W. Gray, Col. John 
Landstrect, Col. John R. Paschall, Col. J. J. Pollard, Col. Robt. K. Spiller, 
Col. H. L. Valentine, Col. John W. Williams. 

Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets, Capt. L. PI. Hodges, LTnited 
vStates Army, commanding. 

Reserve Officers' Training Corps, \'irginia Polytechnic Institute, Capt. 
W. S. Anding, United States Anny, commanding. 

Fourth Regiment \'irginia Infantry, Col. E. Iv. G(«idwin, commanding. 

Company G, Second Regiment \'irginia Infantr\-. 

First Company Virginia Coast Artillery. 

NEW YORK STATE TROOPS. 

Head of vState troops facing north on Second .Street ,SE., closed on last 
Virginia troops; in closed column facing north on Second .Street ,SE., head 
of column closed on governor's staff 1 11.45 •'■ '"■)■ 

Gov. Charles ,S. WTiitman, commanding. 

Staff. — Brig. Gen. Louis W. .Stotesbury, adjutant general; Lieut. Col. 
Lorillard .Spencer, military secretary; Col. Cornelius \'anderliill, Comdr. 



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Louis M. Josephthal, Col. William Hayeward, Maj. Henry J- Cookingham, 
jr., Maj. Francis L. V. Hoppin, Maj. Walter F. Gibson, Maj. Frederick S. 
Couchman, Maj. James L. Kincaid, Capt. L>Tnan P. Hubbel, Capt. Henry 
E. Greene, Capt. Howard E. Crall, Capt. Alvan W. Perry. Capt. Joseph J. 
Kingsbur>', Capt. Hamilton I'ish, jr.. First Lieut. John W. GofF, jr.. First 
Lieut. Maunsell S. Crosliy, Second Lieut. Walter Seligman. 

Sixty-ninth Infantry. 

Twelfth Infantr)-. 

Troops A and B Cavalry, Maj. William R. Wright, commanding. 

First Armored Car Batterj', Capt. Henr\' G. Montgomery, commanding. 

N'ORTII CAROI.IN'.-\ ST.\Ti; TROOPS. 
Second Company Coast .^rtiller^-, Capt. James 11. Lynch, commanding. 

INnKPKNDKNT .•\RMi;n ORG.\.NIZATIONS. 

One company Maine Co;ist .\rtillerv'. 

In closed column facing north on Second Street cast in rear of New York 
troops (11.40 a. m.): 

Washington Infantry (Old Thirteenth Pennsylvania Regiment), Capt. 
George E. Ventess, commanding. 

CADET ORGANIZATIONS. 

In closed column facing south on Second .Street east (12 noon): 

Gonzaga Cadets (Gonzaga College) Capt. O. F. .Snyder, United .States 
Army, retired, commanding. 

St. John's College Battalion of Cadets, Capt. O. F. .Snyder, United States 
Army, retired, commanding. 

Baltimore City College Cadet Corps, Capt. Philij) L. Reinhard, com- 
manding. 

Maryland State College of Agriculture, First Lieut. George T. Everett, 
United States Army, commanding. 

Sewanee Military Academy Corps of Cadets, Maj. H. .S. Jackson, com- 
manding. 

Carlisle Indian .School Corps of Cadets, Jacob F. Duran, commanding. 

Washington High School Corps of Cadets: Lieut. N. B. Briscoe, I'nited 
States Army: Col. Wilbur Gallahan, military' instructor, commanding; Col. 
W. M. Yater, assistant military instructor. 

First Separate Battalion, Washington High School Cadets, Maj. Earl 
Alexander, commanding; Maj. Arthur Brooks, assistant milit.ary instructor. 

Culver Military Academy Corps of Cadets, Maj. L. R. Gignilliat, United 
.States Reserve Corps, commanding. 

Cummins' Memorial Boys' Brigade, Col. Joseph H. Cudlipp, commanding. 

Alexandria High .School Corps of Cadets, Second Lieut. .Stanley G. 
Blanton, I'nited States Reserve Corps, commanding. 



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Third Grand Division' (Veteran) 

In closed formation facing south on Four and one-half Street NVV. at 
Pennsylvania Avenue in order named; head of column at Pennsylvania 
Avenue extending north ( i p. m.): 

Col. A. J. Huntoon, marshal. 

Staff. — Gen. D. \'. Chisholm, chief of .staff; Adjt. Gen. James E. Maynard; 
Q. M. Gen. J. J. Murphy; Past Commander George C. Ross, Adjutant 
General: Judge Hosea B. Moulton, First Aide; Brig. Gen. R. W. Whitacre, 
Col. R. F. Hill, Lieut. Col. A. T. Kane, Maj. N. T. .Saunders, Maj. H. C. 
Magoon, Commander ,S. G. Mawson, Past Commander in Chief John Lewis 
Smith, Past Department Commander Jere A. Costello, Past Department 
Commander E. L. Cogan, Piist Department Commander G. E. Raiisch, 
P;ist Department Commander J. O. A. Braden, P;ust Department Comman- 
der H. C. Wilson, Capt. 1. VV. Stone. Capt. F. S. Hodgson, Dr. William H. 
Gotwald, Dr. William Tindal. 

Grand Army of the Repulilic, Department Commander A. H. Frcar. 

I'nited Si)anish War Veterans, \'icc Commander in Chief Krskine L. 
Solomon. 

Lexington Minute Men, Lieut. William F. Voung, M. V. M. 

Maryland Division, Sf)ns of \'eterans. 

Foirtii Grand Division, Civic Organizations 

At head of staff on Delaware Avenue facing south at B Street north; in 
column closed on staff of marshal of fourth grand division, facing south on 
Delaware Avenue north, head of colurnn near Senate Ollice Building, 2 p. m 

George R. Linkins, marshal. 

Melvin C. Hazen, chief of staff. 

Aides. — Bones, Thomas; Beale, John W.; Brush, Ed. V.; Bonhannon, 
C. W'.; Buchholz, Gus; Burke, Hon. J. L.; Carmody, F. S.; Collie, James R.; 
Colvin, Dr. E. M.; Columbus, Chas. J.; Claffey, Thomas; Cummings, A. J.; 
Darr, Sefton; Davis, Floyd E.; Evans, John O.; Eldridge, Hon. Fred T.; 
Frazier, S. D.; Fay, W. j.; Femeyhough, Dr. E.; Foil, Maj. W. A.; Gass, 
J. S.; Gheen, John O.; Gasch, Herman E.; Galliher, J. H.; Galliher, Merrill; 
Garber, B. S.; Harjjer, William J.; Irvin, W. P.; Jeffries, Rev. John; King, 
Hon. J. Berry; Lanham, Clifford; Latimer, W. J ; Landvoigt, E. A.; Long, 
Isaac S.; Lyons, Col. W. C; Latimer, Joseph B.; Mathy, Joseph; Moore, 
A. J.; Morgan, Thos. P., jr.; Mitchell, James R.; Norton, Raymond; Nee, 
Peter J.; Robbins, R. S.; Shehan, Hon. Daniel; Smith, DeWittC; vSnyder, 
Maj. E. H. ; Sheaffer, D. W. ; Teehee, Hon. Houston B. ; \'on Dachenliausen, 
Geo. A.; West, Henry P.; Wliitaker, Ralph; Walker, Hon. John D. 

Staff. — Citizens of the District of Columbia, MaPidand, and \'irginia. 

Columbus Democratic Glee Club, Columbus, Ohio. 

Caldwell's Band of W;ishington, D. C. 

Wilson and Marshall Democratic As,sociation of Ihe District of Ciilumliia. 
Band. 

Yoimg Men's Democratic Club of the District of Columliia. 

Con Allen Boys' Band, Dubois, Pa. 

Girl Scouts, oi" Washington, D. C. 



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FIRST BRIGADE 



In closed column on Delaware Avumie NE., closed on escort to marshal 
first grand division (2 p. m.): 

Hon. Richard J. Manning, governor of South Carolina, and stafY. 

B;md. 

Central Democratic Club, Harrisburg, Pa. 

Mose Green Club, Louisville, Ky. 

Band. 

Duckworth Democratic Clul), Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Minster's Band, Washington. D. C. 

Essex County Democratic Committee of New Jersey. 

Band, Red Jlcn's Drum and Bugle Corjis of Atlanta, Ga. 

The Loval Legion of Atlanta, Ga., Hon. Asa G. Candler, mayor of Atlanta, 
Ga., commanding. 

Loyal Women, of Washington, D. C, Mrs. Wesley Martin Stover, leader. 

National Service School. 

Junior Defense Guard. 

SECOND BRIOADIC 

In closed column facing south on North Ca])itol Street, head near B 
Street north (2 p. ni.): 

Hon. R. G. Ple;isant, governor nf Louisiana, and staff. 

The mayor of New Orleans and other city officials. 

Band. 

Tammany Hall, New York City. 

Band. 

Brooklyn Democracy. 

Liberty Band. 

Jefferson Club of Philadelphia, Pa. 

Kensington Military Band, of Philadelphia. Pa. 

Democratic Marching Club. Fifth Congressional District of I'ennsylvania. 

Indianajiolis Militar>' Band. 

The Indiana Democratic Club. 

Federal Labor Union No. 12776. 

Women's Trade I'nion League. 

Neighborhood House, Washington, D. C. 

Pennsylvania Women's Woodrow Wilson League, Philadelphia, Pa. 

THIRD UKIGADE 

In closed colunni facing south on North Capitol Street, head closed on 
second brigade (2 p. m.): 

Hon. Theodore G. Bilbo, governor of Mississippi, and staff. 

Band, John A. Thornton, Hopana Military. 

The John H. Thornton Marching Club, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Texas Young Men Contingent. 

Band, Oneida Community Athletic Association. 

Wilson Club, Elmira, N. Y. 

Gastonia Pythian Drum Corps, Gastouia, N. C. 



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Carlisle Indian School, Girls. 
Imjiroved Order of Red Men. 
American Indians. 
California .State Association. 

Company G, Thirty-second Regiment, V. R. Women of the World. 
Fredericksburg. \'a. 

Woodrovv Wilson Progressive I<eague, Palmyra, Pa. 

Fourth bkigadi; 

In closed column facing south on New Jersey Avenue, head of column 
uear B Street NW. (2 p. m.): 

Hon. Frederick li. Gardner, governor of Missouri, and stafl. 

Band, Spring Garden, Pa. 

Young Men's Democratic Society, York, Pa. 

Cook Comity Democratic Club, Illinois. 

New Citizens' Americanization Division, Hon. Raymond F. Crist. 
Deputy Conmiissioner of Naturalization, commanding. 

Band, Polish. 

Polish-American Societies. 

United Syrian-American Clubs. 

Ruthenian National Union. 

Allied Jewish Societies. 

Sons of Italy. 

Labor Unions 

Fn'TH HKICADB 

In closed colunui facing soiUh on Isew Jersey Avenue, head of column 
closed on fourth brigade (2 p. m.): 
A. H. Underdown, commanding. 
J. Clay Smith, chief of staff. 
Band. 

Colored inaugural connnittec. 
Band. 
■ Tammany Colored Democratic Club of New York. 
Colored Democratic League, Chicago, 111. 
Band. 

Hamilton Democratic Club, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Band. 

Knights of Pythias. 
Band. 
Colored Klks of the District of Columbia. 

By command of Maj. Gen. Scott: 

Tasker H. Bliss, 
Major General, United States Army, 

Chief of Staff. 
Official : 

C. A. Dev(il, 

Adjutant Cenerat. 



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(Unmmittrr nit (Etuir (irganisatimt. 

GEORCiK R. LINKIN.S, C.luiirm.w 
C. J. OWKN, rice Chahnum 
MELVIN C. HAZEN, Chiej aj iVuJf 



Hon, RoHERT N. Harimck, 

Chairman Inaugural L ommitUc. 

Sir: I have the honor to submit the following brief report of 
the work of the committee on civic organization of the inaugn- 
ration of Woodrow Wilson as President and Thomas R. Mar- 
shall as Vice President March 5, 1917. 

Shortly after my appointment as chairman of this committee, 
and through your own courtesy and the courtesy of the secre- 
tary of the Inaugural Committee, the office of the committee 
on civic organization was established in the New Willard 
Hotel, and I desire to express my appreciation of the assist- 
ance rendered our committee by the officers and assistants at 
headquarters. 

Our committee held three meetings, at which the work was 
carefully and thoroughly considered and the necessary subcom- 
mittees appointed. Owing to the general condition of unrest and 
uncertainty prevailing throughout the country on account of tiie 
probability that the United States would be drawn into the 
world conllict, the work of our committee was made more dif- 
ficult than ordinarily, and it was only through a vast amount 
of correspondence and repeated urging that organizations were 
induced to participate. Most of the organizations participating 
in former inaugurations, but which did not participate in this 
one, gave as the reason for their not doing so the causes stated 
above. 

It was, therefore, gratifying to us that we were able to make 
the showing in the parade we did, and much credit for its 
success must be given to Hon. Melvin C. Hazen, my chief of 

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staff, and to the aides, who nobly assisted him in forming our 
division, and successfully executing the many smaller details. 
The program of the fourth grand division of the parade with 
the organization members participating are given in the report 
of the grand marshal, and it is not necessary to repeat them in 
this report. 

I have the honor to be. 
Respectfully, yours, 

Georgu R. Linkins, 
Chaiinian Committee on Civic Organization, 

Marshal Fourth Grand Divinon. 



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(Enmmittpp an (Uraua^ortatinn 

BEN L. PRINCE, Cha:rman 
T. L. LIPSETT, Vice Chairman 

March 14, 1917. 
Col. Robert N. Harper, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 

Washington, U. C. 

My Dear Col. Harper: I herewith submit my report of the 
work accomplished by the committee on transportation for the 
second inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. 

The work of this committee has not been voluminous nor has 
it been onerous, but I think we can justly say that we have 
accomplished good results for the inaugural visitors. 

Immediately upon the appointment of this committee, and 
after its first meeting, your chairman communicated with the 
seven different passenger associations of the United vStates for 
the purpose of securing the best rates and general concessions 
possible. 

In the judgment of your committee we were very fortunate 
in securing such favorable rates from the railroads as we did. 
The main obstacle which confronted us was the preliminary 
agreement which had already been entered into by the repre- 
sentatives of the Trunk Line Passenger Association placing 
tickets on sale on the morning of March 2 and requiring tiie 
purchaser of said tickets to reach their return destination by 



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iiiiclni;;ht of March 8. This set-med to the committee cntiroly 
too short a time for tlie prospective visitor to come to Wash- 
ington, taking the benefit of the reduction offered and having an 
opportunity to enjoy any time at the Nation's Capital. If his 
visit amounted to anything, save the opportunity to see a great 
parade, then lie must necessarily spend more money for his 
ticket and not endeavor to take advantage of the low rate. 

We at once began correspondence with the secretary of the 
trunk line passenger committee, asked and obtained from him 
a hearing before the full committee which met in New York on 
January i6. At this hearing I presented as best I could our 
case, showing the hardships it would bring to the people of 
Washington, who would make such extensive preparations for 
entertainment of visitors, the manifest disadvantage it would 
he to the visitor, and the hardship it would work on the railroads 
themselves in getting the crowds in and out in so short a time. 

As a result of this hearing, time was extended on these tickets, 
putting them on sale March i, allowing the purchaser to reach 
his final destination midnight March lo thus giving three full 
days additional time to the purchaser. 

An effort was made, which was only partially successful, to 
get the railroads to advertise more extensively than usual. 
We found in this that practically all of the advertising had 
been agreed upon and a great deal of it was practically ready 
for distribution. 

I trust that the transportation committee four years hence 
will not be quite so handicapped for time. It should Ix" the 
first committee appointed by the chairman, as its work, in order 
to be accomplished properly, must be begun many weeks before 
the time for the event. 

I wish to take this method of expressing my sincere appri'- 
eialion to the membership of this committee for their uniform 
cooperation and especially to the transportation men. The 
committee was made up largely of representatives of different 
railroads and transportation companies, and although not a 
transportation man myself, I have never found a set of men more 
willing and more anxious to cooperate and help in every way. 

The total expense of the committee amounted to $55. 
Very respectfully, 

Bkn L. Prince, 
Chairman Commilkc on Transportation. 



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(Hammxttn an llfiatnrir BiUs 

C. C. CALHOUN', Chahmari 
\\'. V. COX, vice Chairman 



March 27, 1917. 
Hon. Robert N. Harper, 

Chainnan Inaugural Committee, 

]\'as~hi)iQlon, D. C. 

My Dear Mr. Harper : As chairman of the committee on 
historic sites, I have the honor to submit the following final 
report of the transactions of that committee: 

The general committee was divided into five subcommittees 
as follows: Executive committee, W. V. Cox, chairman; to 
examine and pass on points of historic interest, C. C. Magruder, 
jr., chairman; on character, design, and material of marker, 
Frederick D. Owen, chairman; to locate and mark sites selected, 
Henry W. Samson, chairman; and on compiling and printing, 
John Clagett Proctor, chairman. It affords me great pleasure 
to report that the work of these subcommittees was performed 
promptly, enthusiastically, and efiiciently. 

I am informed that heretofore only 10,000 copies of the 
booklet on Points of Historic Interest were issued, and that great 
difficulty was experienced in their proper distribution. Owing 
to the work of these subcommittees and the general committee, 
15,000 copies of the booklet were printed and ready for delivery 
more than a week prior to this inauguration. From the plan 
of distribution worked out by the committee, many of the 
booklets were setit through the railroads and other reliable 



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business and financial institutions — to out of town localities to 
be judiciously distributed to those anticipating visiting our 
Capital City. There was such an interest aroused in the booklet 
as to entirely exhaust the demand before inauguration day, and 
it was confidently asserted that an issue of 50,000 would have 
been absorbed and used to advantage. I submit with this 
report, and as a part thereof, a copy of the booklet. 

At the request of our committee, the printer has agreed to 
leave the type set up for the booklet for future purposes. It 
was also determined to leave the markers in place. 

In this connection permit me to call your attention to what, 
in my opinion, is an. important phase of the work of this com- 
mittee as regards the city of Washington and the entire country. 
In a republic, the hearts and affections of the people will be 
especially centered upon the points of historic interest of their 
country if properly directed, and it is the opinion of this com- 
mittee that patriotic work of a very high order can be done for 
the entire country, and which will prove very helpful to the city 
of Washington, through some such method as that adopted by 
the committee in calling the attention of the people of the 
country to the points of historic interest in the Nation's Capital. 

I understand that many of the public-school teachers of 
Washington became very much interested in the matter, and 
expressed the desire to have booklets similar to the ones issued 
by our committee for distribution to their pupils. I believe 
if a booklet of this character were in every home in Washington, 
it would prove of a permanent and lasting benefit to the city 
which can not be estimated. If such a thing were possible a 
deep and abiding interest could be created in the Nation's 
Capital by placing one of these booklets in the hands of every 
high-school pupil in the entire country. 

Finally, on behalf of the committee, I desire to thank the 
chairman and the general committee for the generous and 
courteous treatment received at your hands. Personally, I 
thank you for having placed me in such cordial relationship 
with the fine body of gentlemen which composed the perscjimel 
of the committee on historic sites. 

Respectfullv submitted. 

C. C. C.\LHOUN, 

Chairman Commillcc on Historic Sites. 



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(Enrnmittpp nn JFirruinrka 

HARKY KING, Chairman 

R. J. WHITFORD, Vice Chairman 

March 26, 191 7. 
Col. RoBT. N. Harper, 

Chairman Inauqural Committer, 

Washington, D. C. 

Dear .Sir: In compliance with yiiur request of March 6, I 
have the honor to present herewith a report of the fireworks 
committee. 

We had elaborate programs prepared by a dozen leading 
pyrotechnic manufacturers of this country. Their programs 
were first submitted to an executive committee and then a 
report of the executive committee brought before our entire 
committee, and the unanimous choice was that the Inter- 
national Fireworks Co., of New York, Mr. John Serpico, president, 
offered the best program. Before we accepted any program 
we sent an invitation to each firm to submit to our executive 
committee a program, and gave them a limited time to explain 
to their best advantage anything additional they might wish to 
add. Even after this, all agreed that the International Fire- 
works Co., of New York, was the one entitled to the unanimous 
consideration. 

A carefully worded contract was arranged, which required a 
certified check for $500 to insure a complete compliance with the 
details of the contract. A bond of $5,000 was also exacted in 
the event of any liability to person or if the display did not 
come up to the standard. 

The program consisted of over 100 numbers. A large number 
of extra pieces were given without any expense to the committee. 
Both the president and the superintendent of the com[)any were 
here and personally supervised the exhibit, bringing with them a 
corps of their pyrotechnic experts. 



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Everything was admirably carried out. Many novel pieces 
were arranged which had never been seen here before. The dis- 
play was witnessed by a large concourse of people, and the flat- 
tering comment from every side as to the beauty of the exhibit 
was most gratifying. The exhibit was unique in many respects 
and was so pronounced by experts. 

The Monument Grounds proved an ideal firing ground. Not 
a single disturbance took place; not an accident occurred. The 
place was admirably guarded by the police, as Maj. Pullman 
kindly supplied the services of a number of policemen under the 
splendid generalship of Inspector Boyle. 

The chairman, in acknowledging his appreciation to those who 
rendered valued assistance in making this the most wonderful 
pyrotechnic exhibit which has probably ever been given in this 
citv, owes his thanks to you, Mr. Chairman, for your uniform 
courtesy and encouragement at all times. Then I am indebted 
for the splendid assistance of my executive committee, who 
also acted as a checking committee. Too much can not be said 
for the splendid assistance rendered me by the f(jllowing mem- 
bers of my executive committee: Mr. Frank Gillen, Assistant 
Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, who was a 
most capable assistant, also Mr. Edward C. Graham, who acted 
as an assistant to the chairman, whose time and ser\aces were 
ever at my command; also to Messrs. Monnie Sanger, Roy 
Adams, and Amandas Jorss, who rendered valuable detailed 
assistance. I also acknowledge thanks to all the members of 
my committee for their splendid cooperation. 

The fireworks committee was allowed $4,000, and the contract 
for the fireworks was $3,900. The display was all we could 
expect. Mr. Serpico, the president, jiromised the best exhibition 
ever shown at any inaugural, and it was the unanimous 
opinion of those who witnessed the display that it was a com- 
plete success. 

It is regrettable for me to announce that the night was not an 
ideal one for fireworks. This committee had made arrangements 
with contractors for the placing of seats on the roadway of the 
Monument Grounds, and, had the night been one suitable for 
fireworks, it is my impression that we would have been 
enabled to return to the Ireasnrv of the Inaugural Committee 



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a fair proportion of the appropriation allotted to us. However, 
we did not lose any money even under the adverse conditions. 
The statement for the receipts and expenditures for the seating 
will be found filed with the chairman to be referred to the audit- 
ing committee for their inspection. 

At t.his time it would not be amiss to suggest that if the date 
of the inaugural will be changed to April or May, when fair 
weather would almost be assured, the future fireworks committee 
should be empowered to make arrangements for seats, so that 
the expense for the entire fireworks exhibit could, by the sale 
of these seats, be turned into the Inaugural Committee. 

In closing, I desire to thank Mr. Belt and Mr. Brooks, to 
whom I could appeal at any time for assistance required, and I 
consider myself very fortunate in having such splendid and 
capable aid from all sources. 

Yours, respectfully, 

II.\RRY King, 

(-'hairman Cuinmillic on I'irnvi)rk<;. 



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SOUTH FRONT OF WHITE HOUSE 



iSf rppttou QlammittP? 

CttAS. A. DOUGLAS, Chairman 
FRANK B. NOYES, rice-Chairman 

March 19, 1917. 
Col. Robert N. Harper, 

Chairman Inangura! Committee, 

Washington, D. C. 

My Dear Mr. H.\rper : The decision against having an 
inaugural ball or reception relieved the reception committee 
of the major part of its work, but the duty of recei\'ing and 
properly entertaining distinguished visitors remained. 

I appointed subcommittees to meet at the station and escort 
to their hotels and to generally look after their comfort and 
entertainment the visiting governors and mayors of cities. 
This work was done by the gentlemen to whom it was assigned 
in a commendable and appropriate fashion. The chairmen of 
the sundry subcommittees were directed by me to employ 
taxicabs for the purpose of performing the duty of escorting 
our guests from the station to their hotels, and to make requi- 
sition on the treasurer of the Inaugural Committee for the 
payment of the same. As I am informed, these bills have all 
been sent in, and they have, doubtless, already been paid. 



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In addition to the above, the other officers of the reception 
committee accompanied me in calling upon the visiting gov- 
ernors and otherwise extending such courtesies to them as were 
appropriate to the occasion. 

I wish in this way to place on record my appreciation of the 
energy, tact, and uniform courtesy that was exhibited by 
i\Ir. H. Rozier Dulany in the discharge of his duties as secre- 
tary to the reception committee. 

Permit me to conclude this letter by expressing to you my 
warm admiration of the successful and able way in which j'ou 
discharged the difficult and arduous duties of the position of 
chairman of the Inaugural Committee. The community owes 
\'ou a del)t of gratitude. 

With assurances of my high personal esteem, I am, 
\'ery cordially and sincerely, 

Cn.\S. A. r>(iur.i,AS, 
(.Iniirmini Rncplion Commiltcp. 



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BRONZE MEDALS 

FOR 

PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT 




(Enmmittrr mt iHrftals anb lOa^gpH 

D. J. CALLAHAN, Chmrman 
D. S. PORTER, rice Chairman 



March 17, 1917. 
Col. Robert X. Harper, 

Chainnan Inaugural Committee, Washington, D. C. 

]\Iy Dear Colonel: In reply to your very courteous letter 
of the 6th instant, asking for a report from the committee on 
medals and badges, I have the honor to say that the committee 
upon its appointment was promptly convened and proceded to 
carefully discharge its duty. 

For reasons made manifest to the committee it was decided 
to recommend to the Inaugural Committee that the usual com- 
position or bronze medals (to the number of some 3,000) be 
eliminated. This action was unanimously aj^proved. ' 

The committee thereupon invited proposals for supplying 
the usual three gold medals, and after considering many awarded 
the contract to a local firm for the sum of $425. These gold 
medals, your committee think, are beautiful, both in design 
and character, and the work of the artist well merited our 
commendation. 

To another local firm your committee awarded the contract 
for furnishing the ribbon badges to the number of 3,495, and 
at a total expense of $432.96. 



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A new departure was made by the coniniittee in this instance 
by providing the members of the Inaugural Committee and all 
chairmen and vice chairmen with a specially designed badge, 
ornamented with a metal pin bearing the designation "Inau- 
gural Committee," and a metal bar inclosing the member's 
name, and the printing on the badge at the bottom indicated 
the title and committee ser^'ice. There were in all 226 of 
these badges distributed. 

The remainder of the committee's badges were all prepared 
(in various colors) and delivered to inaugural headquarters on 
Tuesday, February 27, 191 7, for distribution to the various 
chairmen of committees. 

Congratulating you upon the splendid success attendant 
upon your labors, I am. 
Cordially, yours, 

D. J. C.XLI-AH.^N, 

Chairman LummiUce on Medals and Badges. 



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BOY SCOUT BAND 



(Umnmittpp on 2Juij #rnuta 

A. C. MOSES, Clutirman 

W. G. DENT, Vice Chairman 



March 9, 1917. 
I\Ir. Robert X. Harper, 

Chairman Inanqural (.'(nininitu , 

\\'aski)ujlo>t, /'. C. 

Dear Mr. Harper: Referring to ynur Utter of ;\Iarch 6, 
1917, I submit the following report: 

The committee held one meeting, 'Sir. Dent presiding, as I 
was out of town, and the procedure for the inaugural ceremonies 
were outlined, subcommittees appointed, and their duties defi- 
nitely defined. 

The boys of this organization were on duly in 27 information 
booths Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 8 a. m. until 8 p. m. 

On March 5, the day of the parade, two boys were stationed 
the entire day in the six first-aid stations. In addition, boys 
were stationed on the ambulances. 

At the request of the police department, scouts were stationed 
on both sides of the Avenue from the Peace Monument to Nine- 



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Ictndi vStiLct, about 20 feet apart, from 9 a. ni. imtil after the 
parade was over. 

One thousand Ijoys held the crowd in check at the Capitol 
from 9 a. m. until after the President had finished his address. 

At the request of Mr. Moran, Assistant Chief of vSecret Service, 
50 boys were stationed directly under the President's stand to 
prevent fire or give warning of any possible disturbance in that 
vicinity. 

People along the line of march who needed first aid were 
attended to by the boys until the arrival of the doctor and 
ambulance. 

Streets were opened where directed by the ])olice and the 
crowd held in check until such time as instructions were given 
to again stretch the rope across the crossing. 

As stated in previous correspondence, this organization will 
not forward a bill to the Inaugural Committee for expenses, as 
none were incurred. 

I wish personally to congratulate you on the success of the 
entire management. 

Very trulv, yours, A. C. MosKS. 



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Mthuui (Eflmmittrp 

DR. P. S. ROY, Chairman 

DR. \V. P. C.^RR, rice Chairman 

A wise phjsician skilled in wounds to heal 
Is more than armies to the public weal 

(Iliad) 

;M.\rch 9, 1917. 
Robert N. H.^rper, 

Chairman Inaugural Comtniltcc. 

My DE.'iR j\Ir. Harper : As chairman of the medical committee 
appointed by the Medical Society of the District of Columbia on 
the occasion of the inauguration, I make the following report : 

The five first-aid stations rendered medical assistance to 
76 persons; 19 were sent to the hospital; no deaths. 

All medical supplies have been returned to Array medical 
depot, and I am informed by the officer in charge that these 
supplies were returned in perfect condition. This relieves the 
Inaugural Committee of any responsibihty in this matter. 

As far as I can learn, the medical committee performed its 
duties faithfully and satisfactorily. 

The committee requests me to congratulate you on your very 
perfect organization, which made the occasion a complete 
success. 

\'ery sincerely, yours, 

I'hilip S. Roy. 

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Qlnmmtttpr on Srutpmtng ^tanltH 

JOHN B. COLPOYS, Chairman 
CHARLES F. NESBIT, lire Chairman 



March 12, 1917. 
Mr. Robert N. Harper, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee. 

Dear Mr. Harper: I most respectfully submit the following 
report as a final one for the committee on privileges and 
reviewing stands: 

The work of this committee was reported upon at each 
meeting of the Inaugural Committee, and the matter of grant- 
ing concessions for the erecting of reviewing stands on Penn- 
sylvania Avenue was left in the hands of yourself as chairman 
and the undersigned. Advertisements were placed in all of the 
Washington papers asking for bids for these concessions, and 
after carefully going over the propositions submitted we de- 
cided that the best interests of the Inaugural Committee would 
be conserved by the acceptance of the propositions submitted 
by Mr. Thomas Melton, for the erecting of stands at the space 
in front of the market from Seventh to Ninth .Streets and one 
in front of the Botanical Gardens from First to Third Streets, 
for which privilege he agreed to pay the sum of $700 and 25 per 
cent of net profits accruing from the sale of seats. 

The other proposal accepted was that of Walter J. Costello, 
who gave the sum of $1,100 for the privilege of erecting stands 
at the comer of Ninth and Pennsylvania Avenue, in front of 
post office, and one at the park in front of the National Theater. 

In both cases the respective bidders were required to put up 
a bond to insure the Inaugural Committee as a whole and as 
individuals against damage suits arising from any cause. 

Both parties carried out their agreements in so far as they 
were able, by erecting suitable stands for the inaugural, but, as 



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vou and the coimiiittce are aware, the elements of nature were, 
to say the least, verj- unkind to these gentlemen, and it is my 
belief that little, if any, profits were made out of their venture, 
so that little, if any, further proceeds will be forthcoming from 
the percentage of net earnings on the part of Mr. Melton. 

The committee was ready and willing to lend any assistance 
required of them from either party in helping to make their 
venture a success. 

I desire to take this opportunity to thank you for the energetic 
and helpful assistance which you rendered me in the work of 
this committee, and to sincerely thank you for the high honor 
which vou conferreil upon me in selecting me as chairman of 
this committee. 

Respectfully submitted. 

John B. Colpoys, 
Chairman Committee on Reviewing Stands and Privileges. 



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(HmnmiUn mt ICaral Sransportattan 

J. FRED ESSARY, Chairman 
FREDK. J. HASKIN, Fice Chairman 



March 9, 1917. 
Col. Robert N. Harper, 

Chairman Inaiiqnral Committer, 

WasJiinqton, D. C. 
Dear Sir: I have the honor to submit to you the final report 
upon the activities of the local transportation committee, of 
which I had the privilege of servdng as chainnan. This com- 
mittee devoted itself primarily to the regulation of rates to be 
charged during the inaugural period by unmetered vehicles 
holding police permits. A conference between the committee 
and representatives of the metered or taxicab services was held 
and satisfactory assurances given by the latter that their rates 
would not only follow the schedule laid down by the Public 
Utilities Commission but that rate cards would be prominently 
displayed to guide all passengers in settling their fares. The 
metered-vehicle question thereupon was dismissed by our 
committee. 



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Attention thereafter was centered upon the motor and horse 
vehicles whose rates are fixed upon a trip or an hourly basis 
instead of upon a meter calculation. The chairman of the com- 
mittee was authorized to confer with the Metropolitan police 
officials for the proper regulation of such charges. Later a sub- 
committee of the committee on public order assumed jurisdic- 
tion over substantially the same matter but courteously invited 
the chairman of the local transportation committee to participate 
in the plans which they had worked out, under authority of law. 
We cheerfully cooperated with this body, and have pleasure in 
recording that the system devised by the joint committee met 
all requirements. No complaints whatever against overcharging 
of inaugural visitors have reached this committee. 

Respectfully suljinilted. 

J. Fred. Ess.^ry, 
Chainnan Local Transportation Committee. 



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(Cammitlrr nn ^trrrt irrnrattnna 

FREDERICK D. OWEN, Chairman 
GEORGE H. EMMONS, Vice Chairmar, 



March 27, 1917. 
Col. R. N. Harper, 

Chairman Inaugural CommiUce, 

Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir : In compliance with the request in your letter 
of the 6th instant that I submit a report on the work done by 
the committee on street decorations, I will sum up our en- 
deavors as briefly as possible. 

We were favored by having donated to our use a suite of 
rooms on the second floor of 141 8 Pennsylvania Avenue, which 
were properly furnished, and served a good purpose for our 
committee meetings. 

We were also favored by the bill which passed Congress grant- 
ing us the use of a large number of Army and Navy flags, which 
were stored and distributed from our headquarters. I will add 
further that all the flags loaned out were returned, with the 
exception of two which were lost ; these, however, were promptly 
paid for by the losers. 

After the organization of our committee and the various 
subcommittees, a meeting of all the chief clerks of the Federal 
departments was held, and a resolution passed to the eff'ect that 
all decoration of the various Government buildings would 
consist of the American flag flying to the breeze from poles. 

At a later meeting the general scheme of white and green was 
adopted, white cotton cloth used with laurel rope garland and 
small cedar trees. 

Permits for the erection of reviewing stands were passed by 
this committee upon agreement that the above scheme of 
decoration should be carried out. 

Large posters were placed in nearly all the garages and 
automobile agencies, automobile supply houses, and the like, 
asking that every owner decorate his machine with small 
flags during inauguration week, and asking his cooperation in 
urging the use of the flag by others. Cards with the same 
wording were also sent to owners who had |)rivate garages. 



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Circular letters were sent to all citizens' associations urging 
upon the members the general use of the flag, and personal 
letters were sent to the presidents and general managers of all 
the street railway, taxicab, and sight-seeing automobile com- 
panies requesting them to (lisi)lay the flag on their vehicles 
during inaugural week. 

Permission was obtained from the board of education to have 
read in each schoolroom a letter to the pupils asking them to 
use the flag at their homes, and telling how the flag should be 
displaved. Nearly 2,000 letters were sent to the teachers, and 
in this way we reached nearly 60,000 young peo])le in our effort 
to promote patriotism. 

The new and novel decoration seen on the lamp-posts along 
the line of march was reconnnended by this committee, as like- 
wise the use of the .State shields and emblazonments for each 
of the 48 columns of the Avenue courts of honor, which were 
put up by the comrrtittee on illuminations. 

Our work along the line of march was missionary and educa- 
tional, inasmuch as we had no authority to give orders regarding 
the decorations used, and I am pleased to be able to state that 
the results were very gratifying and will bear fruit in the future. 

Beyond the adoption of our scheme of general decoration, 
namely, the white with laurel garland already mentioned, we 
had to contend with au effort to introduce into the decorations 
along the line of march a flag whose colors were distinctive of a 
special propaganda and whose display at the time would seem 
to be an ettort to advertise its cause. 

A house-to-house canvass of the line of march by our members, 
especially by one of them, with the use in some cases of per- 
suasive arguments and in others of what is known as "bluft"," 
was the means of having this special flag taken down, leaving 
none but Old Glory flying in the breeze, of which, bv the way, 
there was plenty. 

This is the resume of our work, and but a few more words 
seem necessary. 

Our committee worked willingly and in harmony, and I wish 
to thank them every one for their assistance and responsive 
efi"orts, and, uniting with me, they wish to thank our chainnan, 
Col. Har]x-r, for his unfailing courtesy, advice, and helpful aid 
in furthering our endeavors to make the second inauguration 
of President Wilson a brilliant occasion long to be remembered. 

Yours, very trulv, 

Frederick D. Owen, 

Chairman Committee on Strctt Decotations. 



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(Eummtltrr mx lRailrna^ (Urnntnals 

D. A. ED\\ARDS, Chmrman 
\V. J. WILSON, Vice Chairman 

March 8, 1917. 
Mr. Robert N. Harper, 

Wa.ihhiQlon, D. C. 
Dear Sir: I wish to report tliat the committee on railroad 
terminal facilities performed its duties in such a way that there 
was no congestion or any difficulty of an\- kind when the crowds 
for the inauguration arrived. 

We were greatly assisted in this by the railroad officials and 
the public comfort connnittee. 
Yours, very truly, 

D. A. Edwards. 



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(Enmmittpp nn il^ntrl Armmmniialinna 

F. S. MIGHT, Chairman 

ARTHUR RAMSAY, Tic- Chairman 



March 7, 1917. 
Col. RoBT. N. Harper, 

Chairman Inaugural Commiitee, 

Washinqion, D. C. 
My Dear Col. Harper : I have before me yours of the 6th 
addressed to me as chairman hotel accommodations committee 
for the recent inaugural. 

In reply to your request for a report will say that this com- 
mittee made up a list of hotels of the city, together with rates 
had same printed, and turned same over to the Inaugural 
Committee for its use. Will also say that this committee 
rendered certain assistance to the finance committee in ob- 
taining subscriptions to the inaugural fund from the hotels. 

In conclusion, permit me to extend to you my hearty con- 
gratulations upon your very efficient management of the recent 
inaugural and the splendid results obtained by you in every 
way. 

With assurances of my high regard, I am. 
Very truly, yours, 

F. S. HiGHT, 

President Willard Hotel Co. 



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Spport of Publtritij (Cnmmittfp 

FRANK B. LORD, Chairman. 
GR.J1FTON S. WILCOX, V,<e Chairman. 

May I, 1 91 7. 
Hon. Robert N. Harper, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 1917, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: Your committee on publicity begs to report 
that its activities were embraced within a period of a little 
less than two months preceding the inauguration. During that 
time it supplied to daily and weekly newspapers, numbering 
nearly 5,000, approximately 50,000 pieces of copy dealing with 
the events of inauguration and the advantages in general 
afforded to visitors to the National Capital. 

Copy was distributed by mail in manuscript form, in jilate, 
and in matrices. It was also supplied to the Associated Press, 
the United Press, and to the International News Ser^-ice as well 
as to the individual Washington correspondents and special 
writers, to each and all of whom the committee is indebted for 
assistance. 

The committee's appropriation was at first fixed at $600, 
but this was later increased to $1,050, which sum was expended 
in accordance with the vouchers heretofore submitted. Owing 
to the lack of funds, the work of the committee was limited 
almost exclusively to newspaper jjublications and to the terri- 
tory east of the Mississippi. 

The committee feels that a newspaper publicity campaign, 
such as was carried on immediately preceding the inauguration, 
would be highly beneficial to Washington at any time. 

The committee is especially indebted to the American Press 
Association for publicity given apart from the remuneration 
which it received for plates, to Mr. Winfield Jones and Mr. 
J. Walter Mitchell for sen.nces rendered, and to the District 
National Bank for the use of offices in its building during a part 
of the campaign. 

Respec^ully submitted. 

Frank B. Lord, 
Chairman Publicity Committee. 



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J. S. EASBY-S.MITH, Chmrmar, 
C. K. BERRVMAN', I'lce Chairman 



March 2S, 1917. 
Col. Robert N. Harper, 

Chairman Inaugural Commitlcr, 

Washhi(ilo>i, D. C. 

Dear Sir : On behalf of the eoiumittee on the court of honor 
I submit the following report : 

The committee was organized January 11, 1917, and sub- 
committees to take charge of the several phases of the work 
were innnediately selected. 

A subcommittee to ascertain the cost at pre\ious inaugura- 
tions of the erection of the presidential and the Lafayette 
Square reviewing stands, consisting of Messrs. William H. 
DeLacy, Peyton Gordon, and Brainard \V. Parker, promptly 
and carefully investigated and reported, and the committee 
thereupon requested of the Inaugural Committee an appro- 
priation of $30,000, which was granted. The total expendi- 
tures amounted to $31,298.88 which will be reduced by about 
$2,000 on account of sale of lumber and other small recoup- 
ments. 

A subcommittee of architects, composed of Messrs. Appleton 
P. Clark, jr.. Ward Brown, and Charles Morris, was selected to 
issue invitations to the architects of Washington to submit 
plans for the erection, decoration, and illumination of the re- 
viewing stands and the court of honor. As a result of the in\-ita- 
tions plans were submitted, and the three last named gentlemen, 
acting in conjunction with yourself and the chairman and vice 
chairman of this committee as a committee of award, selected 
the plan submitted by Mr. Percy C. Adams of this city. 



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Messrs. Clark, Brown, and Morris, with the addition of Mr. 
Morris Hacker and Mr. Warren B. Hadley also acted as an 
advisory committee to the architect in developing and carrying 
into effect the latter's plans. 

A subcommittee on illumination, composed of electrical en- 
gineers and illuminating experts, namely, Messrs. Thomas J. 
Fisher, Nelson Thompson, George H. Maynard, Robert B. 
Patterson, John H. Finney, and Warren B. Hadley, was ap- 
pointed and acted as an advisory committee to the architect in 
the matter of illumination. 

A subcommittee composed of \'ice Chairman Berryman and 
Messrs. Brainard W. Parker, John T. vSuter, Peyton Gordon, 
William H. DeLacy, and T. Percy Myers was appointed to 
provide for the reception of guests and to arrange other details 
of the management of the President's reviewing stand on inaug- 
uration day, and 50 other gentlemen acted with this subcom- 
mittee as the reception committee. 

The actual work of erecting the stands and decorations was 
performed by Messrs. W. P. Lipscomb & Co., the installation of 
electrical apparatus for illumination was done by Mr. E. C. 
Gramm, and the floral decorations were furnished by Messrs. 
Gude Bros. These three contractors lined up to the letter and 
spirit of their contracts in every particular. 

Mr. Percy C. Adams, the architect, who served without com- 
pensation, not only gave his time and professional skill to every 
detail of the work and supervised and checked every item of 
expenditure, but with rare patience and good will readily 
acquiesced in and promptly carried out changes in and depar- 
tures from his original ])lans, when such changes and departures 
seemed to the connnittee economically necessary. 

The expenditures of the committee, for which $30,000 was 
appropriated, were as follows: 

Erection of court of honor, including stands, pylons, columns, 

etc S24, 725. 63 

Installation of electrical wiring and fixtures for illumination. . . 3, 786. 60 

Electric current, 5 nights 259. 84 

Floral decorations 586. 00 

Rental of chairs : i, 634. 56 

Services, attendants, etc 306. 25 

Total 31.2Q8. 88 



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It is estimated that we will realize approximately $2,000 
for the old lumber, and other small recoupments aggregating 
several hundred dollars will be made, and the net cost reduced 
to about $29,000. 

I feel that I can truthfully report that every feature of the 
work assigned to this committee was successfully and satis- 
factorily performed, and that the credit for this is due to the 
untiring, unselfish, and conscientious labor of Mr. Percy C. 
Adams, the architect, of the members of the subcommittees 
heretofore named, and of the membership at large of this com- 
mittee, and also to your own unremitting zeal and cooperation, 
for which this committee desires me to express its appreciation 
and thanks. 

Respectfully submitted. 

James S. E.^SDY-SMITH, 
Chairman Court of Honor Commiikc. 



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THE WHITE HOUSE 

WA S H I N GTO N 

2 fiarch, 1917 



% dear Colonel Harper: 

I&y I not thank you for the advance 
coiy of the Inaugural SoTwenlr which you were 
kind enough to leave at the office? You and the 
conznittee have certainly taken a great deal of 
paine to prodvice a very handsome eoiwenir which 
I am sure will 'be greatly admired, end I ehall 
myeelf preserve it as a memorial of the very 
careful and thoughtful work of the coonlttee. 
Cordially and sincerely yours, 




Col. Robert N. Harper, Chairman, 
Inaugural Conmittee, 
Washington, D. C. 



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CORNELIUS FORD, Chairman 
O. T. WRIGHT, Vice CImirmar, 

March 15, 1917. 
Col. R. N. Harper, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 

Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith statement of 
expenditures and receipts for the pubHcation of the official 
program of the inaugural ceremonies of President Wilson, 
March 5, 1917. 

Expenditures: 

25,000 programs, at 14 cents $3, 216. 25 

25,000 envelopes, at $5.50 per M 137. 50 

3.453-75 
Receipts; 

To sale of 13,482 programs, at io'-2 cents. 2, 628. 99 

Deficit 724. 76 

This leaves a balance of 11,518 programs which I would 
suggest that the secretary of the Inaugural Committee be 
instructed to take up with the marching clubs and other organi- 
zations who attended the exercises, and others you may have 
on file, with the end in view of disposing of a number of copies 
by this means. I might also suggest as a further plan of dis- 
position that correspondence be opened with the Democratic 
national committee to see whether it would not be a means 
through which thev might solicit subscriptions, and if so, that 
the copies be sold to them at a nominal figure, say, 15 cents. 

In closing the report I have to commend the boys of the high 
schools, who were active in the disposition of these programs, 
as they had to work under severe difficulties and had many 
hardships to encounter. Then, too, the weather of the days 
preceding the inauguration prevented the attendance of many 
who otherwise would have been present at these ceremonies. 
Very respectfully, 

Cornelius Ford, 

Chairynau. 

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WILLIAM F. GUDE, Chairman 
LEO C. BROOKS, Vice Chairman 



March 13, 1917. 
RoBT. N. Harper, 

Chairman Inaugural CommiUcr, Washinqton, D. C. 
My Dear Sir: Your subcommittee dealing with the flag 
decoration of the lamp posts on Pennsylvania Avenue and F 
Street for which purpose there was allowed an appropriation 
of $1,000 begs to submit the following report: 

200 flag holders were purchased from the Universal Decorative 

Co. at a cost of S530. 00 

goo large and 900 small flags from Copeland at a cost of 339. 73 

Express $25. 12 

Labor 22. 00 

Fisher, labor, etc 46. 51 



93- 63 

Total 963. 36 

This sum represents the cost of this very attractive feature. 

We have on hand all the adapters (or holders) and, while 
many of the flags were broken and lost during the gales prevail- 
ing at inauguration time, we now possess 685 of the large flags 
and 760 small flags in good condition and usuable for other 
occasions, and all this property has been turned over to Mr. 
Fred D. Owens for keeping. 

In connection with the illuminating committee we submit the 
following report covering its activities and expenses for the 
inauguration of President Wilson. 

Its principal contract covered the three courts of the States on 
Pennsylvania Avenue and was verbally placed, on February 5, 
with the National Electric Co. of Baltimore at the contract price 
of $5,309. Formal contract was made February 12 and work 



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begun on structures by the contractor soon thereafter. Due 
to labor troubles and to extreme weather conditions, progress 
was not rapid, and the work was delayed in completion some 
24 hours; about 80 per cent ready on Saturday night, March 3, 
with all lights burning March 4 and subsequently. 

The flags could not be hung at Fourth vStreet and at Thirteenth 
Street, mainly because of difficulty in obtaining permission of 
property owners to suspend the guy wires, and because of weather 
and wind conditions it was considered dangerous to use the red 
fire in the Seventh Street court. 

While the job as a whole did not perhaps measure up to your 
committee's expectation and minor changes were necessarily 
permitted, the arrangement as finally worked out seemed an 
attractive feature, and under the circumstances will, we hope, 
merit your approval. 

The committee on illlumination, having deducted the price of 
fireworks and cost of hanging flags from the bill as rendered by 
the National Electric Co. recommends that the following account 
be audited and paid : 

W. F. Gude $108. 36 

C. H. Koster Co 1 20. 00 

John H. Finney 5. 25 

National Electric Co 5, 231. 00 

Total 5, 464- 61 

Appropriation 5, 500. 00 

Respectfully submitted. 

Wm. F. Gude, 

Chairman. 

John H. Turner, 

Vice Chairman. 

Leo C. Brooks, 

Vice Chairman. 



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A. LEFTWICH SINCLAIR, Chairman 
E. HILTON JACKSON, Fice Chairman 
THOMAS GR.\NT, Secretary 



Col. Robert N. Harper, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 

Washingtayi, D. C. 

Dear Sir: As chairman of the committee on public comfort, 
I have the honor to submit the following report covering its 
work : 

The committee was promptly organized, with Messrs. E. 
Hilton Jackson and Thomas Grant as vice chairmen, Mr. Walter 
M. Bastian as secretary, and an executive committee. 

We used the rooms of the Washington Chamber of Commerce 
as headquarters, without expense to the Inaugural Committee. 

About 1,500 hotels, boarding houses, rooming houses, and 
private homes were inspected and listed, sufficient to accom- 
modate about 25,000 people. Bulletins were issued from time 
to time giving the location of the places listed, the names of the 
proprietors, rates, etc., which were distributed throughout the 
United States for the information of persons intending to be 
present at the inauguration. The rates were exceedingly rea- 
sonable, ranging from $1 to $2 per day without meals, and 
from $1.50 to $3.50 per day with meals. 

Under the chairmanship of Dr. William Tindall, a subcom- 
mittee selected various places for the location of public con- 
venience stations, which were erected under the supervision of 
Mr. A. R. McGonegal, the inspector of plumbing, without ex- 
pense to the Inaugural Committee. 

We had a large subcommittee on duty at the Union Station 
from March i until noon of March 4. Mr. Joseph S. Moss served 
as chairman of that committee and Mr. W. J. Hughes as vice 



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chairman. Throu.t,'h the courtesy of Mr. W. J. Wilson, super- 
intendent of the terminal com[)any, two large booths were 
erected in the concourse of the station for our use. Visitors 
wishing to secure accommodations were escorted to these booths 
by our members, where they received from the clerks in charge 
of the booths all desired information and assistance. Those 
unfamiliar with the city were accompanied to the places where 
they engaged acconmiodations by High School Cadets em- 
ployed by us to serve as guides. 

A suggestion emanating from this committee, the effect of 
which minimized, if not entirely removed, one of the most 
objectionable features of previous inaugurals, was the barring 
of a number of entrances to the station and the exclusion of 
all persons not having real business therein. In the past, on 
the occasions of large gatherings, most unfortunate conditions 
arose by reason of the thronging into the waiting room and 
concourse of boarding-house runners and solicitors, as well as 
the idle curious of both sexes. The experiment, which was 
first viewed with doubt by the conservative, was hailed with 
delight by those who had been the sufferers from the evil 
effects of the unnecessary crowding in the past, and the work- 
ing out of the plan proved a boon not only to our committee 
and the station authorities, but to the thousands of visitors, 
and to the bona fide traveler, whether arriving or departing. 
Through the wise forethought of Supt. Wilson, the barring was 
so arranged (ample press notice having been given in four 
Washington papers) that no inconvenience was suffered by 
anyone. 

In conclusion, I acknowledge with gratitude the earnest and 
faithful services of the members of this committee, whose work 
in all respects measured up to the high standard of Washington 
citizenship. 

With assurance of my high esteem and of the pleasure I have 
derived from association with you in the discharge of this public 
duty, I have the honor to be. 
Sincerely, yours, 

A. LEFTWICH SiNCL.JiIR, 

Chairman Committee on Public Comfort. 



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UNITED STATES CAPITOL 



Sr^jort of til? (Enmmtttpp on ICrgialattnn of tl|p 
dliiaugural CCnmmittrp, 191 f 

Mr. Robert X. Harper, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 

Washington, D. C. 

Mv Dear .Sir: In compliance with your request and in 
accordance with custom, I take pleasure in herewith transmit- 
ting my report as to the accomplishments of the Committee on 
Legislation. 

On the 13th of January, 1917, said committee met at the 
Willard Hotel. It was the sense of the committee, after a con- 
ference with Chairman Harper of the Inaugural Committee, 
who attended the meeting, that legislation similar to that 
passed by Congress for the first inauguration of President 
Wilson, March 4, 1913, would meet the requirements for the 
President's second inauguration of March 5, 1917, except it was 
thought by the committee that an appropriation of $40,000 
would be necessary to adequately provide for the maintenance 
of public order and the protection of life and property, in lieu 
of the $25,000 appropriated for that purpose in 1913. The 
chairman was accordingly instP-icted to take such steps as might 
be necessar)- to procure the desired legislation. 



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Through the courteous cooperation of vSenators Overman and 
John Walter Smith, a joint resolution, providing for the main- 
tenance of public order and the protection of life and property 
in connection with the presidential inaugural ceremonies, was 
introduced in the Senate, appropriating a total of $40,000. 
Said resolution (S. J. Res. 203) was introduced in the Senate bj' 
Senator Smith, of Maryland, January 26, 191 7 (Congressional 
Record, p. 2027, first column); it passed the Senate January 30, 
1917 (Congressional Record, p. 2219, second column); was 
debated, amended, and passed in the House February i, 1917 
(Congressional Record, pp. 2408-2409); as amended by the 
House to appropriate a total of $25,000 ,was concurred in by the 
Senate February 2, 191 7 (Congressional Record, p. 2465, first 
column), and was approved by the President February 6, 191 7 
(Congressional Record, p. 2752, second column). 

Said resolution as it was amended and passed in the House, 
concurred in by the Senate, and approved by the President is as 
follows : 

[Public Resolution — No. 48 — 64TH Congress.] 

IS. J. Res. 203.1 

JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the maintenance of public order and the protection 
of life and property in connection with the presidential inaugural ceremonies in nineteen 
hundred and seventeen. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of 
America in Congress assembled, That $23,000, or so muc^h thereof as may be 
necessary, payable from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- 
priated and from the reventies of the District of Columbia in equal parts, is 
hereby appropriated to enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia 
to maintain public order and protect life and property in said District from 
the twenty -eighth of February to the tenth of March , nineteen hundered and 
seventeen, both inclusive, inchiding the employment of personal services, 
payment uf allowances, traveling e.xpenses, hire uf means of transportation, 
and other incidental expenses in tlie discretion of the commissioners. Said 
commissioners are hereby authorized and directed to make all reasonable 
regtilations necessary to secure such preservation of public order and pro- 
tection of life and property and fixing fares by public conveyance, and to 
make special regulations respecting the standing, movements, and operating 
of vehicles of whatever character or kind during said period and fixing fares 
to be charged for the use of the same. Such regulations shall be in force 
one week prior to said inauguration, during said inauguration, and one week 
subsequent tiiereto, and shall be published in one or more of the daily news- 
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the commissioners may deem best to acquaint the public with the same; 
and no penalty prescribed for the violation of any of such regulations shall 
be enforced until five days after such publication. Any person violating 
any of such regulations shall be liable for each such offense to a fine not to 
exceed Sioo in the police court of said District, and in default of payment 
thereof to imprisonment in the workhouse of said District for not longer 
than sixty days. And the sum of $2,000, or so much thereof as may be 
necessar\-, is hereby likewise appropriated, to be expended by the Com- 
missioners of the District of Columbia for the construction, rent, mainte- 
nance, and expenses incident to the operation of temporary public-comfort 
stations, first-aid stations, and information booths during the period afore- 
said, including the employment of personal services. 
Approved, February 6, 191 7. 

With the assistance and cooperation of Hon. Frank Clark, 
chairman of the Committee on PubHc Buildings and Grounds, 
a joint resolution (H. J. Res. 358) authorizing the granting of 
permits to the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, was intro- 
duced in the House on the 25th day of January, 1917 (Con- 
gressional Record, p. 2023, first column); passed the House 
February r, 1917 (Congressional Record, pp. 2407-2408); 
passed the Senate February 5, 191 7 (Congressional Record, p. 
2610, second column); and was approved by the President 
February 9, 191 7 (Congressional Record, p. 3449, first column). 
Said resolution is as follows : 

[Public Resolution — No. 49 — 6.vth Congress.] 

IH.J. Res. 358.1 

JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the grantinK ol permits to the committee on inaugural 
ceremonies on the occasion, of the inauguration of the President elect in March, nineteen 
hundred and seventeen, and so forth. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of 
America in Congress assembled, That the Secretarj- of War is hereby author- 
ized to grant permits, imder such restrictions as he may deem necessary, 
to the committee on inaugural ceremonies for the use of any reservations or 
other public spaces in the city of Washington under his control on the occa- 
sion of the inauguration of the President elect in March, nineteen hundred 
and seventeen: Provided, That in his opinion no serious or permanent inju- 
ries will be thereby inflicted upon such reservations or public spaces or 
statuar)' thereon; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may 
designate for such and other purposes on the occasion aforesaid such streets, 
avenues, and sidewalks in said city of Washington under their control as 
they may deem proper and necessao': Provided, however, That all stands or 
platforms that may be erected on the public spaces aforesaid, including 
such as may be erected in connection with the display of fireworks, shall 



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be under the supervision of the said inaugural committee and in accordance 
with the plans and designs to be approved by the Engineer Commissioner of 
the District of Columbia, the officer in charge of public buildings and 
grounds, and the Sujierintendent of the United States Capitol Building 
and Grounds: And provided further. That the reservations or public spaces 
occupied by the stands or other structures shall be promptly restored to their 
condition before such occupation and that the inaugural committee shall 
indenmlfy the War Department for any damage of any kind whatsoever 
upon such reservations or spaces by reason of such use. 

Sec. 2. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby 
authorized to permit the committee on illumination of the inaugural com- 
mittee for said inaugural ceremoiiies, to stretch suitable overhead conduc- 
tors, with sufficient supports wherever necessary and in the nearest practi- 
cable connection with the present supply of light, for the purpose of effecting 
the said illumination: Provided, That if it shall be necessary to erect wires 
for illuminating or other purposes over any park or reservation in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, the work of erection and removal of said wires shall be 
under the supervision of the official in charge of said park or reservation: 
Provided/ urther, That the said conductors shall not be used for the convey- 
ing of electrical currents after March eighth, nineteen hundred and seven- 
teen, and shall, with their supports, be fully and entirely removed from tlie 
streets and avenues of the said city of Washington on or before March fif- 
teentli, nineteen hundred and seventeen: Arid provided further. That tlie 
stretching and removing of the said wires shall be under tlie supervision of 
the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who shall see that the pro- 
visions of this resolution are enforced, that all needfvil precautions are 
taken for the protection of the public, and that the pavement of any street, 
avenue, or alley disturlied is replaced in as good condition as before entering 
upon the work herein authorized: And provided further. That no expense or 
damage on account of or due to the stretching, operation, or removing of 
the said temporary overhead conductors shall be incurred by the United 
States or the District of Columbia. 

Sec. 3. That the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Nav^,- be, and 
they are hereby, authorized to loan to the committee on inaugural cere- 
monies such ensigns, flags, and so forth, belonging to the Government of 
the United States (except battle flags) that are not now in use and may be 
suitable and proper for decoration, and may, in their judgment, be spared 
without detriment to the public service, such flags to be used in connection 
with said ceremonies by said committee, under such regulations and re- 
strictions as may be prescribed by the said Secretaries, or either of them, in 
decorating the fronts of public buildings and other places on the line of 
march between the Capitol and the Executive Mansion and the interior of 
the reception hall: Provided, That the loan of the said ensigns, flags, signal 
numbers, and so forth, to said committee shall not take place prior to the 
twenty-fourth day of February, and they shall be returned by the tenth 
day of March, nineteen hundred and seventeen: Provided further. That 
the said committee shall indemnify the said departments, or either of them, 



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for any loss or damage to such flags not necessarily incident to such use. 
That the Sccrctarv' of War is hereby authorized to loan to the inaugural 
committee for the purpose of caring for the sick, injured, and infirm on the 
occasion of said inauguration of the President of the United States, such 
hospital tents and camp appliances and other necessaries, hospital furni- 
ture and utensils of all descriptions, ambulances, horses, drivers, stretchers, 
and Red Cross flags and poles belonging to the Government of the United 
States as in his judgment may ba spared and are not in use by tlie Govern- 
ment at the time of the inauguration: And provided further, That the in- 
augural committee shall indemnify the War Department for any loss or 
damage to such hospitals tents and appliances, as aforesaid, not necessarily 
incident to such use: And provided further, That the said inaugural com- 
mittee shall give bond, with security satisfactorv' to the Secretary of War, 
to do the same. 

Sec. 4. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they 
are hereby, authorized to permit the Western Union Telegraph Company 
and the Postal Telegraph Company to extend overhead wires to such 
points along the line of parade as shall be deemed by the chief marshal 
convenient for use in connection with the parade and other inaugural pur- 
poses, the said wires to be taken down within ten days after the conclusion 
of the ceremonies. 

Sec. 5. That the Superintendent of the United States Capitol Building 
and Grounds is hereby authorized to permit the inaugural committee to use, 
for the temporar)- quartering of troops participating in said inauguration, 
so much of the United States courthouse, in Judiciarj' Square, in the cir>' 
of Washington, as in his judgment is available for such use: Provided, That 
the inaugural committee shall indemnify the United States for any damage 
of any kind whatsoever to said courthouse by reason of such use. 

Approved, February- g, 1917. 

The chairman of the committee on legislation attended the 
regular meetings of the Inaugural Committee and reported prog- 
ress from time to time, and finally the passage of the legislation 
as above, which met with and received the approval of the In- 
augural Committee. 

The committee on legislation incurred no expense and asked 
no appropriation from the Inaugural Committee. 

John E. L.askey, 
Chairman of Committee on Legislation. 



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Page One Hundred Forty-three 



iKrtrn|inlttan Polirr Srpartmrnt 

RAYMOND W. PULLMAN, Major and SupermtcnJent, Chairman 
CVPT. JAS. F. OYSTER, Vice Chairman 

August 23, 1917. 
Cul. Robert N. Harper, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 

Washington, I). C. 

j\Iy Dear Col. Harper: At your request 1 am sending you 
the following report on the work of the committee which had 
in charge the public order arrangements for the second inaugu- 
ration of President Wilson on March 5, 1917: 

Immediately after you honored me with the appointment as 
chairman of the committee, a general meeting of a number of 
public-spirited men of Washington was called. Subchairmen 
were appointed and subcommittees formed from members of 
the general committee. 

The plan which I suggested to you, and which you were kind 
enough to adopt, for the establishment of a number of first-aid 
stations along the Avenue, instead of taking all first-aid cases to 
the Emergency and Casualty Hospitals, worked out admirably 
and assisted the police a great deal in preserving order and 
preventing confusion. In all other parades the policy has been 
to take every first-aid case to a hospital, which resulted in great 
congestion at the hospital and considerable confusion in having 
the ambulances racing up and down the Avenue. The first-aid 
stations were well located, and a large percentage of cases were 
handled without making necessary long ambulance runs, which 
resulted in far less interference with the parade and far less 
disturbance of public-order work than there ever has been on 
any other similar occasion. I hope that for the benefit of per- 
sons who may be injured, and also for the benefit of the police 
assisting in public-order work, that you will recommend that 
inaugural chairmen who will come after you follow out the 
first-aid system which was instituted this year. 



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On account of the disturbed international situation it was 
made manifestly necessary that every possible safeguard and 
precaution that could be afforded by the police department 
be thrown about the ceremonies and the whole city during the 
inaugural period, and the program of the committee on public 
order was laid out expressly with this idea in mind. 

Mr. Evan H. Tucker headed the subcommittee appointed for 
duty around the depots, while Mr. George H. McDonald acted 
as chairman of the subcommittee on hotels and vehicles, and 
Mr. John D. Sullivan as chairman of the subcommittee on 
theaters and fireworks. These subcommittees did excellent 
work in assisting and directing visitors to the city and aiding 
in the preservation of law and order around such places where 
it was anticipated large numbers of people would congregate. 
Fine work was done by these committees also in preventing the 
charging of excessive rates by auto drivers, restoring lost arti- 
cles to owners, and in detecting and preventing "capping" at 
the Union vStation. 

The duties of the subcommittee on obstructions, under the 
leadership of Mr. Odell S. Smith, consisted in preventing the 
placing of boxes, barrels, etc., on the sidewalks along the line 
of marcli, did good work, and the absence of such obstructions 
was dircctlv traceable to the work done by this committee. 

The subcommittee on fire prevention, under the able direc- 
tion of Fire Chief Wagner, reported no casualties or loss of 
property by fire, and the subcommittee on roping and surface, 
with Mr. A. E. Phillips acting as chairman, handled creditably 
the arrangements made for placing the line of march in proper 
condition. 

An innovation in the work of the public-order committee 
for this inauguration was the creation of a subcommittee on 
automobiles, of which Mr. Howard S. Fisk was chairman, and 
too much credit can not be given to the splendid and efficient 
work done by this committee. 

The program called for the policing of the city and the 
making of emergency calls by automobile and through the 
generosity and public-spiritedness of the motorists and auto- 
mobile dealers of this city 122 machines were donated and put 
in use on March 4 and 5. The work of this subcommittee was 



Page One Hundred Forly-fite 

a distinct success and proved unquestionably the desirability of 
maintaining it as a permanent institution for subsequent occa- 
sions of this character. 

The subcommittee on street railways, under the leadership 
of Mr. David S. Carll, vice president of the Capital Traction Co., 
performed its duties in an excellent manner and the line of 
march was properly cleared of cars in ample time for the parade 
and everything moved satisfactorily. 

The work of the Boy Scouts on inauguration day was admir- 
able, 1, 800 in number being on duty on the da}' of the parade 
under the direction of Mr. H. H. Grogan, of the Boy Scouts of 
America. Valuable assistance was given by them to the police 
on this day in keeping the crowds behind the ropes, and their 
work in assisting at first-aid stations and information booths 
was of great sersice. 

In conclusion, I want to congratulate you again on your 
splendid work in handling the general committee, and I want 
to take this opportunity to say a word of appreciation for the 
cooperation given my committee by the secretary of the Inaug- 
ural Committee, Mr. Alvin G. Belt. His willingness to assist 
my then secretary, Mr. Ringgold Hart, and myself, whenever 
we were in need of assistance, and also the fine teamwork 
done by the various chairmen of the subcommittees of the 
public-order committee, helped to make our work run off more 
smoothly on this occasion than it has on any other public- 
order committee of which I have served as chairman. 

Among the many letters received expressing approval of the 
work of the public-order committee in cooperation with the 
police the following from President Wilson is particularly 

appreciated : 

M.\Rcn 22, 191 7. 
My DE-^R M.\j. Plxlman: I am sure you will realize that it is only illness 
that has prevented my writing sooner to express to you mj- aj)preciation and 
admiration of the police arrangements on inauguration day. They evi- 
denced very careful forethought and were certainly admirable in every 
particular. 

* Cordially and sincerely, yours, 

WOODROW WiLSO.N. 

Very sincerely, yours, 

Raymond \V. Pullman, 

Major and Superintendent. 

16978° — iS 10 



Page One Hundred Forty-six 




iKp|iDrt of tljr iFtnanrr (UommtttPF 

MR. ARTHUR PETER, CImirman. 

MR. JAS. B. LARNER, ] ... ,,, . 

> I ire iJiainnen. 

mr. corcoran thom, j 

March iS, 191 8. 
Col. Robert N. Harper, 

Chairman oj the Inaugural Commiltcc, 

Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith the report of 
the Comniittee on Finance. The contributions totaled $68,165, 
which was less than had been raised at the two preceding 
inaugurations. The fund was contributed under difficult con- 
ditions. The war, the absence of the inaugural ball, and the 
doubt which for some time existed whether there would be an 
inaugural ceremony made it apparent that there would be a 
deficit. The contributions were thus made with the full 
knowledge that recourse would be had to the guaranty fund. 
Under these conditions I feel that the response of the business 
people of Washington must be considered generous. 

I desire to express my hearty appreciation for the untiring 
assistance and valuable counsel rendered me by Mr. John B. 
Larner and Mr. Corcoran Thom, who acted as vice chairmen of 
the committee. 

Very respectfully, yours, 

Arthuk Peter, 
Chairman Finance Committee. 



Pa^e One Hundred Forty-seven 



?CiBt nf f'ltbsrrtbrrB to SInauqural Ifmxh. 191 



Ailes, M. E $500 

Ailes, Eugene E 100 

Adams, BtiToh S 100 

Andrews, R. P., Paper Co i^ 000 

Artz , Samuel loo 

Abncr Drury Brewing Co ;oo 

American Ice Co 200 

Berliner, Emile 100 

Blair, Woodburj' loo 

Brylawski, A loo 

Bell, Chas. J i, 000 

Burch & Kleps 250 

Brownlow, Louis 100 

Blair, Gist 25 

Brand , Adolph 10 

Beale, Truxton loo 

Browning & Middkton 100 

Bliss, A. O., properties 50 

Boss & Phelps 50 

Berry & Wliitmore Co 100 

Becker Leather Goods Co 203 

Britton, Alex loo 

Bro«Tiing & Bancs 5c 

Barnard, Ralph P 100 

Balch, Emily G 100 

Blair, Henry P 100 

Brawner, Jno. W 100 

Brandeis, Alice C 100 

Belt, O'Brien & Co 250 

Brooks, E. F., Co 100 

Coleman, Ernest A 10 

Columbia Typographical Union 100 

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co 500 

Clapham, A. G 200 

Cahill, Jas. A. : 150 

Consolidation Coal Co 250 

Capital Traction Co i , 000 

Cranford Paving Co 100 

Castelli, Vincent 100 

Crupper, Jos. L 100 

Columbia Granite & Dredging Co 100 

Crane Co 25 



Page One HunJrcJ Forly-elghl 

Corby Baking Co S500 

Cunningham Plumbing Supply Co 10 

Cox, W. V 25 

Calhoun, C. C 50 

Castlebergs 100 

Cooper, Wade H 1 00 

Capitol Park Hotel Co 200 

Droop, E. F., & Sons 250 

Dean, Iv. B 500 

Dulin & Martin 250 

Dulancy , H. R 100 

Dulaney, jr., H: R 100 

District Title Co 500 

Dunlop, G. Thos 100 

Darr, Chas. W 100 

Davis, Floyd E 1 00 

Dove, J. Maury, Co 500 

Douglas. Chas. A 200 

Dewey Hotel 50 

De Moll, O. J., & Co 100 

Eustis, Geo. P 250 

Eustis, W. C 500 

Evans, estate of Daniel S 100 

Edmonston, Wm. E 100 

Evening Star Newspaper Co i, 000 

Edson , John Joy i , 000 

Etz, Edwin H 25 

Evans, Elizabeth G 100 

Ellerson & Wemple 100 

Franklin & Co 100 

Flannery , J . S 50 

Frazcr, Daniel i, 000 

Ford Motor Co 1 00 

Fitch, Fox & Brown 5° 

Flather, W. J 200 

Fox, A. F 100 

Ford, J. M., & Son 100 

Federal Taxicab Co 250 

Fleming, Geo. E 100 

Fleishman Co. , The 200 

Foster, Percy S 25 

Glen Echo Park Co 100 

Grosvenor, Gilbert H 250 

Grove, Harry C. (Inc.) 25 

Garfinkle, Julius, Co 500 

Gasch & Birge 100 



Pa^e One Hundred Forty-nine 

Gasch, Herman E $200 

Gait & Brother ,00 

Gardiner & Dent 100 

Gregg, J. W 05 

Gude Brothers 2 t;o 

Graver, J. S 50 

Goldenberg, M joo 

Gerstenberg, Ernest 25 

Hotel Continental 500 

Hibbs, W. B. , & Co : i, 000 

Holmes & Son i , 000 

Hub Furniture Co 100 

Hecht & Co 250 

Hoover, W. D 100 

Harris, R . , & Co 100 

Hume, Emma 50 

Harris & Shaefer 1 00 

Hotel Occidental • ^o 

Harper, Robt. N 1, 000 

Hamljleton & Co i , 000 

Homing, Geo. D 100 

Henry, prank C 100 

Heurich Brewing Co 300 

Hanger, J. E. , & Co 5 

Hammond, T. V 100 

Harrison, W. H 500 

House & Herman 200 

Hahn, Wni., & Co 100 

Hamilton, Geo. E 500 

Heidenheimer, E 100 

Hotel La Fayette 100 

Johnston, John A 100 

Jelleff, Frank R 100 

Johnson, R. Harrison ;o 

Kite, Harry A 100 

Kolb, J. Leo 100 

Keith, B. F., Theater 500 

Kann, S., Sons & Co 1,000 

King, Charles W 5° 

King 's Palace 200 

Kaufman, D. J., & Co 25= 

King, Clarence P 5°° 

Keen, Geo. T. (Inc.) 23 

Lamb & Tilden 100 

Leverton, J. L i°° 

Lambie, James B 5^ 



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Leiter, Joseph $ioo 

Lansburgh & Bro i, ooo 

Leese, M. A 50 

Linkins, George R 250 

Lipscomb, William P 1,000 

Lasky, John E 100 

Lee , Arthur 100 

La Follette, Mrs. Robert W 25 

Lamer, John B 250 

Loughlin, Daniel, Co 100 

Lisner, A 500 

Mann, Robert E 25 

Marm, Isaac T i, 000 

McKee, Townley A. (or Southern Hotel Co.) 300 

McLachlen Banking Corporation 100 

Mangan , M . F 50 

May, F. P., & Co 100 

Miller, Samuel 100 

Michael , Theo 50 

Murphy, E. J., Co 25 

Magruder, J. H 100 

Maddox, Saml 100 

McKenney, F. D 100 

Moore & Hill 200 

Muddiman, C. A., & Co 50 

Mantizouris, A. A 50 

Miller, Joseph 5 

MacFarland, H. B. F 25 

North Capitol Savings Bank 100 

National Capital Press 25 

Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co 500 

National City Co i, 000 

National Electric Supply Co 200 

Norment, C. F i, 000 

Newman, E. S 25 

National Oil & Development Co 500 

National Capital Brewing Co 300 

Nee, P. J., & Co 100 

Noonan , John J 500 

New Willard Hotel i, 000 

Newcomb, H. T 100 

O'Doimell, Jas., & Co 250 

Offutt, G. W 100 

O 'Hanlon & Murray 25 

O'Hanlon, Michael 25 

Oyster, Geo. M., jr 200 



Page One Hundred Fifly-one 



Old Dutch Market $200 

Oyster, Jas. F 100 

Parker, M. M 100 

Pompeian Oil Co i, cxjo 

Pinchot, Gertrude M 25 

Packard, H. M 10 

Parker, E. S 200 

Pollock Car Corporation 100 

Peter, Arthur 300 

Prince, Ben L 100 

Prescott, Saml. J., Co 200 

Philipsbom & Co 500 

Peyser, Julius 1 100 

Powhatan, Hotel i, 000 

Pittman, Mrs. Key 10 

Potomac Electric Power Co i, 000 

Parker, Bridget Co 200 

Ross, Samuel 2 50 

Roy, Philip S 100 

Rapley, W. H 100 

Rust, H. L 200 

Rudolph & West 250 

Rich 's, B . , Son 100 

Ruffin, Sterling 100 

Rizik Bros 100 

Ruffin, Thos 100 

Rudolph . Cuno H 500 

Rousson, C. A , 25 

Rizenstein, Sidney H 50 

Raleigh Hotel i, 000 

Story & Cobb '. . . . 50 

Schmid, Edw. S 25 

Shannon & Luchs 100 

Stone & Fairfax 100 

Saks & Co 500 

Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co .' 500 

Sanders, J 10 

Saul, B. F 200 

Sworzyn, M., & Sons 5 

Stellwagen, Edw. J i, 000 

Smith, F. H., Co 50 

Simpson & Co., C. W 10 

Schneider, Chas., Baking Co 100 

Sands, T. K 15° 

Selby, Wm 100 

Small, J. H., &Son 100 

Smith, Thos. W 25° 



Page One Hundred Fifly-lwo 



Spencer, J. C $io 

Sullivan, W. C ' 50 

Sherby, Harry 50 

Scott, Guy F 1 , 000 

Strasberger, M 20 

Smith, T. Arthur 50 

Stone & Poole 10 

Semmes, Chas. W i , 000 

Security & Commercial Bank 500 

Shea, Jas. F 100 

Strasberger, Jos. , Co 200 

Shoreham Hotel 500 

Saunders, Wm. H i, 000 

Thom, Corcoran 250 

Truesdell, Geo 100 

Tolman Laundry 100 

Tharp, Walter J 5 

Topham, Estate of J. S 75 

Terminal Taxicab Co 200 

Tribby, Chas. E 100 

Underwood Typewriter Co 250 

WiUard, Henr>' K 100 

White. Geo. W 100 

W'ilkins, Robt. C 100 

Walters, Wra. H. , & Co 10 

Woolf, C. M., & Co 100 

Weschler, Adam 100 

Weller, F. P 50 

Washington Steel & Ordnance Co i, 000 

Weaver Bros 100 

Walker, Ernest G 100 

Weller, Jos. I 50 

West, Sidney 100 

Washington Railway & Electric Co i, 000 

Wardman, Harry i, 000 

Wales, Edw. H 25 

Warfield , S. Davis i , 000 

Waters, Somerset R 25 

Whitmore , Lynn & Aldcn : . 100 

Washington Post i , 000 

Waggaman, Jno. F 500 

Woodward & Lothrop i, 000 

Wilkins, Jno. F 100 

Washington Gas Light Co i , 000 

Western Union Telegraph Co 500 

White Palace Lunch No. 3 25 

Xander & Plugge 2 ; 

Total 68, 165 



Page One Hundred Fifly-lhree 



Slrpnrt nf (Hrpaaurrr 



Col. Robert N. Harper, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee. 

My Dear Sir: I beg to submit the following, covering gross 
receipts and disbursements, the details of which have been sub- 
mitted to you in reports of the various committees: 

Received from subscriptions $68, 165. 00 

Received from all other sources, including privileges, conces- 
sions, and sale of tickets 33, 436. 94 

Paid as per vouchers submitted and duly audited 
and countersigned by you S56, 501. 34 

Returned to subscribers 45, 100. 60 

Total 101,601.94 101,601.94 

Yours, very truly, 

WiLLiA.M H. Saunders, 

Treasurer. 



Pait One Hundred Fifty-four 



LEVI H. DAVID, Chanmar.. 
CORNELIUS ECKHARDT, Vice Chairman. 
DA\^D F. SANGER, Secretary. 
E. S. WOLF. 

W.ALLACE McK. STOWELL. 
MITCHELL J. FRIEDMAN, Special Accaunlant for the Committee. 



March 15, 191 8. 

Col. Robert N. Harper, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 

Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: The Auditing Committee, having examined all 
matters pertaining to the financial transactions of the Inaugural 
Committee of 1917, beg to submit its final report. This com- 
mittee audited before payment all vouchers submitted by the 
chairmen of the various subcommittees, and also audited all 
receipts and disbursements by the treasurer, and the same were 
found to be correct in every particular. 

We submit with this report the following statements: Exhibit 
No. I, a statement of the moneys received and the dividends 
returned to the subscribers; Exhibit No. 2, a statement in detail 
of all expenditures of the various subcommittees, showing the 
exact bank check used in each particular transaction; Exhibit 
No. 3, a recapitulation sheet of the expenditures of the subcom- 
mittees, and the amounts that were allotted to each, also show- 
ing in what amount they exceeded their allotments; Exhibit 
No. 4, a statement balancing the bank account ; finally, Exhibit 
No. 5, a master sheet of the final audit of tlie Inaugural Com- 
mittee. 

Respectfully submitted. 

Levi H. David, 

Chairman. 



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Exhibit No. i. 

GUARAN"TY FUXD RECIUVKD. 

Guaranty fund received $68, 165 00 



68, 16^. 00 



GUARANTY FUND RETURNED. 

First dividend declared on $68,165 received was 

60 per cent $40, Sgg. 00 

Second dividend declared on $68,165 received was 

6.16 + per cent 4, 201. 60 

Total dividend returned to subscribers 45, 100. 60 

Amount subscriptions used in expenditures 23, 064. 40 

68, 165. 00 

Exhibit No. 2. 
expenditures of the committees in detail. 



Item. 



Check 
No. 



Mar. 24 



Apr. 20 



Jan. 20 

2y 

Feb. 3 



National Capital Press, printing, etc. 
Postage used from secretary's office. . 



Total. 



(No allotment.) 



RECEPTION. 



Gentry Duplicating Co., multigraphing 

W. A. Copenhaver, engraving 

Terminal Taxi Co.. cab service 

Postage used from secretary's office. . . , 



Total . 



(No allotment.) 



Pim LICIT V. 



Salaries of clerks, etc 

do 

....do 

M.Joyce Engraving Co 

Lansburgh Co. . hire of furniture 

American Multigraph Sales Co 

Royal Typewriter Co., rent of typewriter. 

American Press Association, newspaper shipments 

Stamps 

Salaries of clerks, etc 

Office supplies 

Salaries of clerks, etc 

International Syndicate, printing, etc 

Chas. O'Conner, one layout 

Harris & Ewing. pictures 

Salaries of clerks, etc 



$i6- 00 

16.7s 



178 
24s 



S02 
34.00 
49-85 

7- 81 



96.68 



102.00 
40-00 
74-00 
20-CO 
14- 00 

3- 50 

3.00 

300.00 

20.00 

69.00 

5.80 

S4.00 

128.89 

10.00 

26- 00 

44.00 



Pa^e One Hundred Fifly-six 

EXPENDITURES OF THE COMMITTEES IN DETAIL— CoB/mMerf. 



Date. 


Item. 


Chepk 
No. 


Amount. 


Mar. lo 


American Multigraph Sales Co 


85 
100 
146 
219 

220 
238 
254 


$6. 75 
34-50 

51-85 








Officeexpenses 






29 


R. P. Andrews Paper Co.. office supplies 




Apr. 18 


Western Union Telegraph Co . 


4-10 
-85 


21 


, do 




Postage used from secretary's office 




Total 








1.059- 58 




(Allotment of Si.oso.) 

PRINTING. 


263 


July 7 


3,216.2s 




Postage used ironi secretary 's office 




Total 












(No allotment.) 

MEDALS AND BADGES. 


179 

180 
181 




Mar. 24 


2- 15 


•4 


Meyer's Military Shop, badges 


24 


R. Harris & Co.. pold medals 


4^5-00 




Postage used from secretary 's office 




Total .... 








860. 40 




(Allotment of Si.ooo.) 

ArniTiNG. 
(No disbursement; no allotment.) 

TRANSPORTATION. 


12 

66 
78 




Tin. 26 




Mar. 8 


Clerk hire 






National Capital Press, printine, etc . .. 


4-25 
3- 23 




Postage used from secretary's office 




Total 








62.48 




(Allotment of S80.) 

PUBLIC COMFORT. 
A. L. Sinclair 


4 
31 
44 
167 

174 
216 
234 

250 




Jan. 5 






S3- 00 




A. L. Sinclair 


Mar. 24 








. do 






R. P. Andrews Paper Co., office supplies 


28.69 


Apr. 5 




do 


55-64 
22.45 








Total 










(Allotment of S875.) 
This committee received direct from fees for regis- 
tration S387. 50 


















937-50 
Disbursements as follows; 

Feb. 1 7. office expenses, etc $532- 55 

Mar. 9. employees 383. 95 

Mar. 24, car fare, cadets 21. 00 

937-50 





Page One Hundred Fifty-seven 
EXPENDITURES OF THE COMMITTEES IN lyET Alh— Continued. 



Jan. 31 
Feb. 3 



May 



Feb. =8 

Mar. 7 

8 



Apr. 



Feb. 12 



Item. 



PXTBUC ORDER. 

Postage used for secretary's office 

Total 

(Allotment of $50.) 

MILITARY ORGAN'IZATIOMS. 



Messenger ser\-ice 

Clerk 

\V. F. Roberts, stationery 

Bailey. Banks, and Biddle. certificates 

R. C. Burton & Son, pennants 

Clerk, services 

Messencer service 

W. F. Roberts, printing, etc 

Postage and stamps 

Norris Peters Co., maps 

Bruno Bros., parade markers 

Army and Navy Cooperative Co.. sashes.. 
Western Union Telegraph Co.. telegrams. 

S. E. Sullivan, engrossing 

Messenger ser\^ces 

Clerk, services 

W. F. Roberts, printing, etc 

Army and Navy Cooperative Co., sashes.. 
Postage used from secretary's office 



Total. 



(Allotment of Sr.ooo.) 



CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS. 



Gentry Duplicating Co., multigraphing 

Columbus Glee Club 

S. N. Aleyers, badges 

Evening Star, notice 

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.. phone service. 

Washington Post Co. . not ice 

National Capital Press, printing, etc 

W. F. Mahoney. inspection of mounts 

IMeyer's Military Shop, badges 

Ch ief of staff, expenses ' 

West End Laundry, hire of horses 

Washington Times, advertising 

Geo. R. Linkins. postage, etc 

Postage used from secretary's ofificc 



Total . 



(No allotment.) 



COURT OF HONOR. 



W. p. Lipscomb, construction of stands 

Percy C. Adams, architect 

W. P. Lipscomb, construction of stands. . . . 

Globe Ticket Co., tickets 

Louis Hartig. paper and hardware 

Gentry DuplicatingCo.. printing, etc 

Ticket takers 

Attendants 

R. P. Andrews Paper Co., tags 

Duplicating Letter Co., printing, etc 

Dennison RIanufacturingCo.. printing, etc. 

S. Hanlein. cotton signs 

Kendall 0'D\\Ter. loss by sale of mats 

Gude Bros. Co.. decorations 

W. P. Lipscomb, construction of stands. . . , 



Check 
No. 



23 
30 
46 
SI 

52 
63 
64 

75 
84 
207 
208 
209 
210 
211 
212 
259 



53 
62 
67 

74 
76 
79 
87 
89 
187 
1R8 
189 
230 
231 



Amount. 



SfG-04 



56. 04 



21-33 
60. 00 
24- 17 

58.00 

3-75 

60.00 

40- 00 

i:!.67 

9.00 

100.00 

60. 25 

231-45 

12. 65 

10. 57 
13-33 
24-00 
2 57-45 
63-75 
4- ^.° 



41.92 

125.00 

28-00 

16.38 

12.67 

1-4: 

4. 00 

1-59 

3- 75 

6- 00 

30.00 

1.68 

3.12 

39-86 



34 


T 


000 00 


40 




271. 25 


45 


8 


OOO-OO 


49 




9-75 


86 




5- 50 


8S 




3.00 


102-106 




25.00 


154-157 




10-00 


158 




2- 50 


J 59 




2.40 


160 




27- 50 


161 




5.00 


ib2 




33- 50 


I6.i 




s86- 00 


164 


S 


000.00 



Pa§c One Hundred Fifly-eight 

EXPENDITURES OF THE COMMITTEES IN DETAIL— Ca»im«erf. 



Apr. 



July 9 



Feb. 2S 
Mar. 8 



Apr. 18 



Mar. lo 



Mar. 10 
16 
19 



Apr. 



May 29 



Geo. H. Maynard, expense 

E. C. Gramm, illuminations 

Oakwood Chair Manufacturing Co., chairs 

Potomac Electric Power Co.. lighting 

\V. P. Lipscomb, construction of stands 

J. Lansburuh Furniture Co,, chairs 

Officer, Public Grounds and Buildings, repairing. 

W . S. Carroll. Insurance 

M. G. Copcland Co.. flags 

Postage used from secretary's office 



Total 

(Allotment of $_io,ooo.) 



STREET DECORATIONS. 

Gentry Duplicating Co., multigraphing, . . 

Gibson Bros., printing, etc 

Byron S. Adams, circulars , 

F. I). Owen. otTice expense , 

J. Maury Dove Co., fuel 

Clerk, services 

Depot quartennastcr. repairing 

Postage used from secretary's office 



Total , 



(AUolinciit of Sioo.) 



HISTORIC SITES. 



Barber Ross Co. , hardware , 

Jas. B. Lambie Co., hardware 

R. L. Smoot, ser\-ices 

E. K. Staley. hauHng 

Geo. Smoot, auto services 

E. D. Fry. auto services 

Thomas Bryan Ellis Co.. pamphlets 

H. M. Samson, typewriting 

Duplicating Co., postal notices 

Gentry Duplicating Co., multigraphing. 

!Meyer'siMiIitary Shops, badges 

M. Joyce P^ngraving Co., engrossing 

Wm. P. Watts, sign work 

Postage used from secretary's office 



Total. 



(Allotment of S500.) 



1LLUMIN.\T10NS. 



M. G. Copeland Co., flags 

Universal Decorating Co., flag holders 

National Electric P. Co., current and materials. 

C. H. Coster Co.. shields 

Gude Bros. . decorations 

Jno. H. Finney, hardware 

Thos. J. Fischer Co 

Potomac Electric Power Co.. lighting 

do 

American Express Co., expressage 

Postage used from secretary's office ''. 



Total. 



(Allotment of $6,500.) 



Check 
No. 



165 
166 
193 
215 
223 
229 
240 
247 
264 



56 
69 
77 
83 
99 
193 
239 



94 
95 

96 
97 
182 
183 
184 
185 
186 



147 
ISO 
196 
197 
198 
233 
243 
246 
260 



Amount. 



$3 6. 60 

,. 750. 00 

,430. 00 

259-84 

.735-63 

60. 72 

16. 24 

33- 00 

65- 50 

5-4 5 



31.364.38 



3-00 
37- 75 

9-7.S 
13-43 

5- 30 
60.00 

2.50 

6.98 



138. 71 



1. 00 
8. 19 
1- 00 
6. 75 
5. 00 
4. 00 

170. 00 
3- 95 

2. Oo 
2-35 
3- 15 

31. u 
17- So 
3- 46 



260. 36 





339 


73 




5.i° 


00 


1 


000 


00 




1 30 


00 




108 


3(> 




S 


IS 




46 


51 




19 


14 




5 


00 




2S 


12 




5 


94 


6 


205 


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Page One Hundred Fifty-nine 
EXPENDITURES OF THE COMMITTEES IN DETAIL— Continued. 



Apr. 



Jun: 



Mar. 24 
Apr. 19 



Mar. 29 



Feb. 14 
Mar- 10 



Item. 



FIREWORKS, 



Duplicatinp Letter Co., print inR, etc 

Officer, Public Buildings and Grounds, expense. 

. . do 

International Fireworks Co., fireworks 

T. P. Moore & Son, printing, etc 

Clerk, services 

Washington Post Co.. advertising 

Washington Times Co., advertising 

Washington Herald, advertising 

H. K. Advertising Service, multigraphing 

Collector of Taxes, roping 

Evening Star, advertising (part of) 

National Capital Construction Co.. receipts 

Postage used from secretar>''s office 



Tntjl. 



(Allotment of S4.000.) 

LOCAL TR-VNSPORTATION. 

Postage used Irom secretary's office , 

Total 

(No allotment.) 

REVIEW^NG STANDS. 



Baltimore Sun, advertising, 

Washington Post Co.. advertising 

Officer Public Buildings and Grounds, blue print. 

The Washington Times, advertising 

Washington Herald, advertising 

The Evening Star, advertising (part of) 

Postage used from secretary's office 



ToUl, 



(No allotment.) 

BOY SCOUTS. 

Postage used from Secretary's office 

Total 

(No allotment.) 

INFORMATION BOOTHS. 

General expenses 

Total 

(Xo allotment.) 

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS. 

Postage used from secretary's office 

Total 

(Noallotjnent.) 

LAFAYETTE REVIEWING STANDS. 

Globe Ticket Co. . tickets 

14 ushers 

24 ushers 

Rent of chairs 



Check 
No. 



194 
195 
206 

224 
225 
226 
227 
228 
236 
242 
258 
262 



241 

2S8 



35 
108-121 

I22-I4S 



S7. SO 

5.60 

18.39 

3,894-40 

9-5° 

21.00 
9.00 
6.60 
9. 00 
2. 10 
19. 03 
9. 00 
175. 00 
4.81 



4.190.93 



IS- 08 
.28 

12.48 
11.42 
17-54 
4-23 



6\. 03 



.26 
.26 



83-50 

83- 50 



28. 04 

70.00 

72. 00 

348. 95 



Pa^e One Hundred Sixty 

EXPENDITURES OF THE COMMITTEES IN DETAIL— COTihni«i. 



Date. 



Mar. 34 
J4 



Apr. 



Mar. 34 
Apr. 20 
Feb. 10 



Apr. 2] 



Dec. 30 
30 
30 
15 

IS 
IS 

15 
IS 



Jan. 



31 
Feb. 10 



Item. 



National Capital Press, printing, etc. 

Gentry Duplicating Co., notices 

Washington Post Co., advertising 

S. Hanlein, painting 

W. Sidney Carroll, insurance 

Clerk, services 

Clerk, services 

Washington Herald, advertising 

Washington Times Co.. advertising.. 
Evening Star, advertising (part of). . 
Postage used from secretary's office. . 



Total 



(No allotment.) 

LEGISLATION. 

Postage used from secretary's office 

Total 

(No allotment.) 

R.MLKO.VD TF,RMIN.\L. 

Postage used from secretary's office 

Total 

(No allotment.) 

treasurer's office. 



National Capital Press, printing, etc. 

Office supplies and insurance 

Sundries. 

Postage used from secretary's office. . 



Total 

(No allotment.) 

WOM.\N'S SECTION. 

Mrs. Edith O. Stoncr, expense 

Total 

(No allotment.) 

secretary's office. 



Clerk, services 

do 

do 

Incidental expenses 

Clerk, services 

...do 

...do 

....do 

Gentry Duplicating Co., multigraphing. 

Stamps 

Clerk, services 

...do 

...do 

Stamps 

Stenographer 

Clerk, services 

...do 

...do 

Stamps 

Gentry Duplicating Co., printing, etc — 



Check 

No. 



169 
170 
171 
172 
173 
313 
314 
333 
353 
358 



191 

344 
273 



$9.00 

2. 10 

51.00 

39. 30 

I3S-00 
8.81 
30.00 
4!- 80 
36.00 
18.00 
3.65 



874- 55 



I-I.i 
I- 13 



1.98 
1.98 



14- 3S 

41-37 

66.73 

5.00 



127-35 



I 


26.00 


2 
3 


33- so 
36-63 


5 


50-00 


6 


43-37 


7 


32-50 


8 


17- SO 


9 


7- SO 


10 
1.1 


27-05 
101-80 


lb 


32-50 


17 
iS 


3 = -SO 
43-38 


19 


30.00 


32 


8. 00 


37 
38 


32-50 
32-50 


39 


43-37 


42 


40.00 


54 


14- 50 



Page One Hundred Sixly-one 
EXPENDITURES OF THE COMMITTEES IN DZT AIL— Con linutd. 



Check 

No. 


Amount. 


55 


$9-87 


57 


60.00 


58 


32- 50 


59 


16. 25 


60 


43-38 


65 


97-25 


6S 


4.00 


71 


6.00 


72 


10- 00 


7.! 


3-00 


So 


123.75 


81 


6. 20 


S3 


17- 50 


107 


24.62 


148 


32.50 


149 


43-37 


'75 


1-98 


176 


4-98 


217 


2.60 


21S 


9-90 


222 


43-38 


237 


1-38 


24S 


2-25 


249 


2.00 


256 


144 49 


257 


16.40 


261 


4-50 


263 


5- 00 


266 


7.00 


267 


1. 00 


258 


5-00 


270 


3.00 


271 


7-50 


272 


30.00 



Feb. 28 
2S 
28 
28 
28 

Mar. R 



Apr. 





23 


June 


14 


Dec. 


10 




13 




13 


Ian. 


7 


Feb. 


7 



Gentry Duplicating Co., pririting, etc 

Stamps 

Clerk, services 

...do 

...do 

Shaw Bros., stationery 

General Typewriter Co., rentals 

Chas. B. Jarvis, photos .' 

Washington Woodwork Co., mail box 

"M. Joyce Engraving Co., cut. 

National Capital Press, stationery 

Lamb & Tilden, oftice supplies. . , .- 

Clerk, services 

R. P. Andrews Paper Co., supplies 

Clerk, ser\'ices 

.do 

Gentry Duplicating Co., notices 

Library Bureau, index 

Riggs writers, multigraphing 

Fred S. Lincoln, guides 

Clerk, services 

Western Union Telegraph Co.. telegrams 

Duplicating Letter Co. multigraphing 

Gentry Duplicating Co., printing, etc 

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., service.. 

National Capital Press, printing, etc , 

Duplicating Letter Co, multigraphing 

J. W. Painter, photos 

Chnedinst Studio, photos 

G. V. Buck, photos , 

Harris & Ewing. photos 

do 

Clinedinst Studio, photos 

M. G. CopelandCo.. flags 



Total 



Postage charged to — 

Finance 

Reception , 

Publicity 

Printing , 

Medals and badges 

Transportation . ... 

Public coralort , 

Public order 

Military organizations 

Civic organizations 

Court of honor 

Street decorations , 

Historic sites 

Illuminations 

Fireworks 

Local transportation , 

Reviewing stands 

Boy Scouts 

rtotel accommodations 

Lafayette reviewing stands. 

Legislation 

Railroad terminal 

Treasurer's office 



TotaL. 

(No allotment.) 



, 506 65 



i6-75 

7.81 

25- 00 

137- 50 
.29 

3-23 

22.45 

56.04 

4- 50 

39-86 

5-45 

6.98 

3-46 

5-94 

4.81 

.26 

4-23 

.26 

I. 90 

2.65 

l<3 

1.98 

5- 00 



357-48 



1697S — 18- 



Page One Hundred Sixly-iuX) 

EXPENDITURES OF THE COMMITTEES IN DETASh— Continued. 



Date. 


Item. 


Check 
No. 


Amount. 


Jan. 26 


INAUGURAL. 

OfTicer, public buildines and Erounds. permit. 


M 

41 

199 

2CO 

201 
202 
203 
204 
205 
235 


SScx). 00 


Feb. 27 






Mar. 27 








, .do 






. .do 






. . do 






do....- 






do 






. . do 






do 


25.00 




Total 




4.237-So 




(No allotment.) 





Exhibit No. 3. 



STATEMENT OF ALLOTMENTS AND EXPEXDITURES OF ALL 
COMMITTEES. 



Finance 

Reception 

Publicity 

Printing 

Medals and badges 

Auditing 

Transportation 

Public comfort 

Public order 

Military organizations 

Civic organizations 

Court of honor 

Street decorations 

Historic sites. 

Illumination 

Fireworks 

Local t ransportation 

Reviewing stands 

Boy scouts 

Information booths 

Hotel accommodations 

Lafayette reviewing stands. . 

Legislation 

Railroad Terminal 

Treasurer's office 

Woman's section , 

Secretary's office 

Inaugural 



Allotment. 



$1,050. 00 



1. 000. 00 



80. 00 

875-00 

SO- 00 

1.000. 00 



Expended. 



$32- 75 

96.68 

1,059. 58 

3>S'iV 75 

860-40 



JO, 000. 00 

100. 00 

500- 00 

6. 500. 00 

4,000. 00 



Total I 56.501.34 



62.48 

847- 09 

.';6. 04 

1,066. S7 

315-34 

31- 364- 38 

13S. 71 

260. 36 

6. 205. 05 

4, 190. 91 

.26 

63- 03 

.26 

83-50 

I. 90 

874- 55 

1- 13 

I. 98 

127-35 

5a 00 

1. 149- 17 

24,237-80 



Expendi- 
tures more 
than allot- 
ment. 



532- 75 

96.68 

9-s8 

3-353- 75 



6. 04 

66.87 

3 '5- 34 

1.3^4-38 

38-71 



190.93 

.26 

63- 03 

.26 

83-50 

I. 90 

874- 55 

I- 13 

1*98 

127-35 

50- 00 

1.149- 17 

4.237. So 



Expendi- 
tures less 
than allot- 
ment. 



Si 39. 60 



17-52 
27-91 



239- 64 
294- 95 



1 Include.! item of 81,750 reimbursed to the committee for the sale of lumiber, returned to the 
treasurer and listed as a receipt (see preceding statement). 

-Includes Si.f>i.^.So deposited with the quartermaster U- S. Army, and also SRoo de- 
posited with officer. Public Buildings and Grounds, both amounts returned to treasurer 
and listed as receipts (see preceding statement). 



Page One Hundred Sixty-lhree 

Exhibit No. 4. 

BANK STATEMK.VT. 

Credit balance, according to District National Bank in city of 

Washington, D. C $4^ 289. 83 

OUTSTANDIN-O CIIKCKS. 

12. H. K. Willard, first dividend S6. 00 

268. Harris & Ewing, general expense 5. 00 

269. Harris & Ewing, general expense 3- 00 

270. Clinedinst Studio, general expense 7. 50 

272. Sundries, general expense 66. 7^ 

Subscribers, entire second dividend 4, 201. 60 

Outstanding checks 4^ 289. 83 

No balance in bank o, 000. 00 



ExnililT No. 5. 

STATEMENT OF FUNDS RECEIVED AND DISBURSED BY THE TREASURER OP THE 
INAUGUR.\L COMMITTEE. 

Rircifils. 

Guaranty fund S6S, 165. 00 

Reviewing stands 24, 006. 00 

Programs 2, 628. 99 

Privileges, concessions, etc 2, 234. 04 

Sale of tickets, fireworks at Jlonunient Grounds (S332.50, less 

$16.62 expense managing sale) 315. 88 

Sale of tickets, concert on Mar. 6 at Court of Honor (S24.50, less 

$1.27 expense managing sale) 23. 23 

Deposit returned by officer, public buildings and grounds 800. 00 

Deposit returned by quartermaster. United States Army, loan 

of flags , I, 612. 80 

Proceeds, sale of lumber i, 750. 00 

Proceeds, sale of bolts 66. 00 



lOl, 601. 94 

Disbunetnenls. 

Guaranty fund returned 45, 100. 60 

Amounts disbursed by committees, audited as per detailed 
statement 56, 501- 34 

loi, 601. 94 



Pa^c One Hundred Sixty'four 



V*NCt C MCCORMICK HOMEB £ CUMMlNGS WILBUR W MARSH 



irmnrratir Natiuual (Eommittep 

PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS 

435-441 WOODWARD BUILDING 

WASHINGTON D C 

Ifcrch 7tb, 1917 



Hon. Robert N. Hari)«r, 

District National Back, 

Washington, D. C. 

Dear Colonel Harper: 

I am directed ty the Democratic 

National Conmlttae to advlaa you that at a meeting 

of this Coimlttee, held at the Shoreham Hotel, In 

the City of Washington, on Tuesday, Ibreh 6th, the 

following resolution nas adopted: 

"Besolved, that the thanks of the Democratic 
National Conmlttee be extended to Hon. Robt, 
N. Harper, Chairman of the Inaugural Conmlttee, 
of the City of Washington, for courtesies 
shovm to the members of this Committee. " 

Very respectfully, 



Assistant Secretaijr 



Page One Hundred Sixly-fioe 



®tTr (ElnHing iKrrting 



The final meeting of the Inaugural Committee was held in 
the red parlor of the Willard Hotel, on March 28, at which 
time a buffet luncheon was ser\-ed. Prior to partaking of the 
luncheon, Commissioner Brownlow called the meeting to order, 
and in a brief speech reviewed the work of the committee and 
the close and ])leasant association experienced between the 
committee and the chairman. He then, in the name of the 
individual members of the committee presented the chairman 
with a silver punch bowl and tray, a Swiss gold watch, chain 
and pencil, each appropriately engraved. 

Mr. D. J. Callahan, chairman of the committee on badges and 
medals, then rose and addressed Chairman HaqDer, saying that 
as chairman of the committee on badges and medals he had 
been directed by the Inaugural Committee to present to him a 
gold medal — an exact replica of the one made for the President 
and Vice President. Mr. Callahan stated that his committee 
had been authorized to have three gold medals made, one each 
for the President, the \'ice President, and Chairman Harper, but 
that Chairman Harper had requested that as for him he would 
prefer that such an expenditure be not made and that he had 
led the chairman to believe that his request would be adhered 
to, but inasmuch as he considered it only a slight token of the 
high regard and esteem in which he is held by the Inaugural 
Committee, that Chairman Harper should have the souvenir to 
keep and hold forever, not for its intrinsic value alone, but as 
a token of commemoration for his distinguished serA-ices as 
Chairman of the Inaugural Committee of 1917. 

Mr. Harper accepted the gifts in the following remarks: 

My friends, I must confess that this is a great surprise to me. So much 
so that I fail to command language appropriate for tlie occasion. I only 
wish that I could express my feelings of gratitude as I « ould like to. But 1 
can not. 

I entered into tliis work fully realizing the honor which had been bestowed 
upon me by the national chairman, and with a full realization of the respon- 
sibility before me. 



Pa^c One Hundred Sixty-six 

The work has been most enjoyable, the details of which have by no means 
been entirely new, iis yuii no tloiibt recall the part I took four years ago in 
assisting the then chainnan. 

And now after three months of close association, working shoulder to 
shoulder with the members of this committee, leading men in all walks of 
business life at the National Capital, it is a particular honor to me, and one 
which I shall everlastingly remember, to have my efforts, feeble though 
they may have been, thus recognized by you gentlemen. . 

I hoi)e it is fidly imdcrsto<jd by each and everyone of you that I do not 
take for myself all the credit for the success of this inaugural. Each one 
of you played an important part, and it was by such teamwork, and loy- 
alty by you to me, that this result was made possible. 

I trust, in the absence of appropriate words to express my sincere feelings, 
that you believe that my grateful appreciation of this honor is far more 
deep-seated than my language indicates. 

Vou have assisted me, and the value of it has been recognized upon more 
than one occasion, to a degree which shall never be satisfied until the op- 
portunitv will come for me to join any one of you, to the best of my ability, 
in making an honored task, like this, as pleasant and e;isy for you as you 
have made this chairmanship a delightful recollection to me for days yet 
to come. 

These tokens shall be preserved by me and for years to come looked upon 
as a reminder of the brightest memories of the past. 

I consider them real and substantial treasures which shall enter much 
into the pleasure of my future existence, and v\henevcr I look upon them 
in years to come I shall be reminded of my pleasant association. 

I want to thank you, gentlemen, each and every one, for the loyal sup- 
port which 3-ou have given me, and I trust my future life among you will 
speak for itself, and prove that this recognition has not been a misguided 
one. 

At the conclusion of Mr. Harper's remarks substantial and 
appropriate recognitions were presented to Mr. Alvin G. Belt, the 
general secretary, for his unceasing energies; Mr. R. E. Brooks, 
assistant secretary; Mr. William J. Harper; and Mrs. Herndon, 
all of whom responded happily and with expressions of appre- 
ciation for such recognition. After short and appropriate 
talks by Mr. C. W. Darr and Mr. Simon Wolf commendatory of 
the work of the chairman and the adoption of a resolution of 
thanks and appreciation, presented by Mr. Corcoran Thom, to 
the manager of the New Willard Hotel for the many courtesies 
and hospitalities extended to the committee and its various 
subcommittees, the Inaugural Committee adjourned without a 
day named. 



Page One HunJrcJ Sixly-sccen 



CAliTCft QUISS 



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John 6M£MittA 
TtLt'HOix Maia 39CiS 




Washington, d C 



u'orcii 9, 1917. 



Colonel Robert U. Harper. 

Chalmon, Inaugural Comclttee, 
WiBhlngton, D C. 
hfy dear Colonel: - 

At a regular neetlng of the Washington 
Rotar:i' Clut hold today at noon In the Comnerclal Club, 
it VIB.3 unanimously voted that I express for the mew^ers 
their (creut appreciation of the vor>' tactful and efficient 
way you arranged and carried out so successfully as Chair-- 
man of the Inaugural Conmittee, the many details attendant 
upon the liiductlon into office of President ffoodrow Wilson 
on March 5th. 1917. 

With assurances of toy o.-i personal congratu- 
lations and high esteec, I an 

Very cordially yours , 

/7 President. ^^ 



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